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(Screenshot: Israel Defense Forces) A series of Israeli airstrikes last week killed Muhammad Sinwar, the de facto commander of Hamas in Gaza, according to reports on Sunday that said his body was found in a Khan Younis tunnel. Muhammad Sinwar was the younger brother of the former Hamas leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, who was killed by the IDF in southern Gaza last October. According to a separate report, Zakaria Sinwar, another brother, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Saturday night. The strikes that reportedly killed Muhammad Sinwar on Tuesday targeted an underground command compound below the European Hospital...

The Obama Doctrine is as dead as Yahya Sinwar. And the world is better off in both cases. While the massacre of Oct. 7, 2023, was one of the most traumatic events in modern Jewish history, it’s obvious now that it was a massive, perhaps existential, blunder by the Islamic State as well as a stunning defeat for its allies both in the Middle East and Washington. Oct. 7 transformed the Middle East in ways that seemed impossible only a few years ago. Hamas, perhaps the most immediate threat to both Jewish and Arab lives in the region, is largely...

Six Israeli hostages, who were murdered in a tunnel by Hamas terrorists in August, were likely used as human shields to protect the recently killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, according to a Channel 12 report on Sunday. The hostages, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Ori Danino, Eden Yerushalmi, Almog Sarusi, Alexander Lobanov and Carmel Gat reportedly lived on energy bars for months before eventually being executed by terrorists in Gaza. On Sept. 1, Israeli forces retrieved the bodies of the murdered hostages in a Rafah tunnel. Sinwar likely chose these six Israelis as human shields because they were considered particularly valuable assets. For...

Nature might abhor a vacuum, but empires love them. The busy empire-builders in Tehran have spent the last two decades extending their reach into power vacuums in Iraq and Syria as part of their attempt to recreate at least part of the old Persian Empire that once covered almost the entire Middle East. Funding the Houthi rebels in Yemen keeps the Saudis conveniently distracted, too, as well as giving Tehran a way to attack the shipping that Western economies rely upon. Hamas and Hezbollah in Gaza and Lebanon respectively are Iran's imperial outposts even further west — and the Arab...

So says Al-Hurra, which is interesting of itself, but we'll get to that in a moment. According to Open Source Intelligence Monitor, Arab countries have sent back-channel approval for an Israeli strike on Iran in response to the ballistic-missile attack earlier this month. They understandably want the attack to remain focused and disciplined to prevent a wider war, and they want a heads-up before the attack to prepare a common defense. In fact, OSINT notes that this appears to be a case of getting the Nasrallah-hit band back together again: Al-Hurra is reporting that several Arab Counties have recently sent...

Time magazine this week is putting Yahya Sinwar on their cover, with a red X across his face, something they have only done four previous times: Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein, Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi and Osama bin Laden

Hamas Chief Yahya Sinwar, the most wanted outfit’s leader was killed on October 17 by the IDF. Sinwar, whom IDF calls the ‘face of evil’ was on the radar of the Israeli forces since the hostilities of October 07. But Yahya Sinwar, the butcher of Khan Yunus is not just known for the execution of the October 2023 attack. Days after ‘reuniting’ him with his former Chief Haniyeh, IDF released the terrorism history of Yahya Sinwar. Notably, IDF also released exclusive footage of Sinwar and his family moving to hideout moments before the hostilities of Oct 07. As per IDF...

Controversial social media personality Andrew Tate posted on X/Twitter on Saturday that he was praying to die a death like former Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar. “I can only pray for a death as heroic as Yahya Sinwar,” Tate wrote. “Brave, defiant in the face of evil and dedicated to his lifes [sic] purpose. He deserves eternal rest. He earnt [sic] it.” Sinwar, the mastermind behind Hamas’s October 7 attacks, which saw the massacring of over 1200 people, was eliminated by the IDF on Wednesday….

Editor's note: The Washington Free Beacon has exclusively obtained the final draft of the New York Times obituary for Yahya Sinwar. The Hamas leader and architect of the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack is believed to have been killed Wednesday in a firefight with Israeli forces. Yahya Sinwar, a formerly incarcerated novelist and scholar known for his mastery of the Quran and Semitic languages, was martyred Wednesday while resisting Zionist bullets with his formidable brain in the southern Gaza Strip. He was 61. An Arabic Studies major and father of three, Sinwar assumed leadership of Hamas, the anti-colonial activist organization,...

So Yahya Sinwar has been killed. The leader of Hamas in Gaza is no more. The man widely believed to have been the architect of the pogrom of 7 October has been eliminated. The worst mass murderer of Jews since the Nazi era has been served the ultimate and most righteous punishment. The fascist is dead. This is a great day not only for Israel and the Jewish diaspora that has been smarting for more than a year from the horrors that Sinwar and his army of anti-Semites visited on southern Israel, but also for all of humanity. It was...

On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that while he’s not a huge fan of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “over the last month, he’s gone against world opinion and American opinion on a whole range of issues, and he’s been absolutely right” in a way that has “served world peace” by weakening terrorist groups, and so those calling for him to declare victory in the wake of the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar should accept they don’t have the same intelligence as Israel and Netanyahu has “been making some right calls over the last...

The IDF spokesman in Arabic tweeted tonight (Saturday), on the social network X, a former Twitter: "While the residents of Gaza do not have enough money for food, Sinwar's wife was observed entering the tunnel with him with a Birkin bag worth $32,000."

When Israeli forces examined Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar's body after killing him in a surprise ground operation on Thursday, they discovered several curious items, including grenades, an assault rifle, nearly $11,000 in cash, and a passport belonging to an employee of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency.Those items, experts told the Washington Free Beacon, suggest Sinwar may have been attempting to flee the embattled Gaza Strip when Israeli forces stumbled upon him inside a house in the territory's Rafah neighborhood, Hamas's stronghold along the border with Egypt...The presence of an UNRWA passport in Sinwar's belongings is another blow to...

The IDF has released previously unseen footage of Yahya Sinwar hiding in a Gaza tunnel. The former leader of the Hamas terror network is believed to have been filmed on the night before the massacres of October 7 2023 when 1200 Israelis were murdered and over 250 taken hostage. It was an act that has sparked more than a year of war between Israel and several Iranian terror proxies in the Middle East.

עם ישראל: חטיבת ביסל"ח, אוגדת עזה וצה"ל כולו גאים לתת לכם במתנה לחג את הראש של העכבר סינוואר. "יתמו חטאים מן הארץ ורשעים עוד אינם ברכי נפשי את השם הללוי-ה" תהלים ק"ד פסו ל"ח. Am Yisrael (Jewish people! / People of Israel ed.) The Bislah Brigade, the Gaza Division, and the entire IDF are proud to give you the mouse's head as a holiday gift. "Let sinners cease out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more.Bless the LORD, O my soul. Hallelujah!" Psalms 104:35.[https://t.me/yinonews/26801 on Telegram]

La Stampa: 10.18.24 "Da Mussolini a Yahya I Corpi de Male" "Rat in the hole."

PM and his circle argue that the elimination of the Hamas leader, in the city world leaders said Israel must not invade, shows he knows what he’s doing despite opppsition criticismIn mid-March, US officials told the Politico news site that US President Joe Biden would consider limiting future military aid to Israel if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went ahead with an offensive against Hamas in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah. Days before, Biden said in an interview that such an IDF move into the city would be a “red line,” while adding that he was “never going to...

IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi tells commanders from the Golani Battalion that Israeli forces have killed some 1,500 Hezbollah operatives so far since Israel stepped up its assault on the Lebanese terror group."We are very determined to hit Hezbollah as hard as possible," Halevi says during a visit to troops in southern Lebanon in remarks released by the IDF today."We have taken out their entire command layer," he says referring to airstrikes that killed terror leader Hassan Nasrallah and other top leaders. "And you are taking out the local command structure."Halevi says the terror group "continues to shrink and...

As Hamas reels from the loss of its chief instigator Yahya Sinwar, the terrorist organization’s remaining leaders defiantly proclaim they will not release Israeli hostages. Meanwhile on the northern border, the IDF is reporting that Hezbollah fighters are beginning to surrender. Also, as Tehran’s ring of fire around the Jewish State crumbles, Israel vows that its much-anticipated retaliatory attack against the Iranian regime is still imminent. Watch now.

On Wednesday evening, a little over a year after he brought unspeakable suffering to thousands of Israelis, Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was killed in a chance encounter with IDF soldiers. While the IDF didn't officially confirm the details, a plethora of reports and eyewitness accounts in the Israeli media allow us to gain a comprehensive picture of the circumstances of the death of the world's most wanted terrorist. After the months that Israel's security forces were hunting Sinwar through the underground maze he had built himself in Gaza, he was found by chance, walking above ground in broad daylight in...