IDF killed the Man Who Killed over 1000 at Worship Center

Jerusalem Post source shows that Hamas leader, Yahya Sinwar, was killed by the IDF in Rafah on Wednesday in an unplanned operation, sources close to the matter confirmed to The Jerusalem PostThursday evening, several hours after rumors arose that he had been killed earlier Thursday.

Shortly after, around 7:45 p.m., confirmations came out from the IDF, Shin Bet, Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz, and others, that Sinwar was in fact dead.

Evidence that Sinwar is dead included matching both his dental records and fingerprint records which Israel had from the period when he was in Israeli prisons until 2011.   

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi responded to the assassination saying, "We have settled the score with Sinwar who was responsible for the very hard day which we had a year ago." 

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Standing next to Shin Bet Chief Ronen Bar and IDF Southern Command Chief Maj. Gen. Yaron Finkleman, Halevi went on to note that the IDF had undertaken a huge number of operations against Sinwar which had led to this moment.

Although the final operation which killed Sinwar happened without pre-existing intelligence, Halevi said that the entire situation was created by the continued determination of the military to keep carrying out operations to locate Hamas throughout Gaza in general, and in Rafah in particular.

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said, "Sinwar concluded his life defeated, chased, fleeing, and not as the commander, but as someone who only worried about himself."

Gallant continued, "This is a clear message for the families of those fallen and the hostages, but also for the people of Gaza, the end of this man who brought this disaster upon you has come, this is the moment to release the hostage and to surrender."