- Mohammed Sinwar, a Hamas chief, was claimed to have died in 2014.
- However, Israeli spies now consider he’s alive and that he helped mastermind the October 7 assaults.
- They consider he has spent years residing in Hamas’ labyrinth of tunnels beneath the Gaza Strip.
A Hamas chief who was pronounced useless years in the past is now believed to be alive and to have helped mastermind the October 7 assaults, Israeli intelligence says, The Telegraph reported.
Mohammed Sinwar, the youthful brother of Hamas’ chief in Gaza Yahya Sinwar, was pronounced useless by the militant group in 2014, with the group even releasing a picture of him mendacity in a blood-soaked mattress.
However, Israeli spies at the moment are mentioned to consider that his demise was faked and that he had been residing in Hamas’ “spider’s web” of tunnels beneath Gaza for years, sources near Israeli intelligence mentioned.
“He was 100 per cent one of the core team who planned October 7,” a former Mossad counter-terror chief informed The Telegraph.
Hamas’ shock terror assault on Israel noticed militants assault by air, land, and sea, resulting in the deaths of round 1,200 individuals in Israel and the taking of round 240 hostages.
“In the military leadership he’s very important,” the previous Mossad chief mentioned concerning the youthful Sinwar. “He’s around number seven on the wanted list, alongside the likes of Mohammed Deif, Marwan Issa and Tawfiq Abu Naim. He’s an important figure and he’s still alive for sure.”
The youthful Sinwar focuses on serving to safe the discharge of Palestinians who’re in Israeli prisons by means of border infiltration and kidnappings, Ronen Solomon, an impartial intelligence analyst, informed The Telegraph.
Solomon mentioned that Sinwar survived six assassination makes an attempt over the past 20 years and that he had restricted his actions to guard himself.
He has by no means been seen in public since he was pronounced useless, and Gazan residents would doubtless not even acknowledge him now, he added.
The IDF hinted in a publish on X, previously Twitter, that it was as soon as once more focusing on Mohammed Sinwar, writing that troopers had searched an workplace linked to him and located “military doctrine documents.”
Mohammed Sinwar was one of many earliest members of the navy arm of Hamas, having beforehand labored in administrative roles, per The Telegraph.
The ex-Mossad chief mentioned that Sinwar additionally performed a key position in securing his older brother’s launch from an Israeli jail in a 2011 prisoner trade.
Yahya Sinwar is Israel’s most wished goal. Israel’s protection minister Yoav Gallant mentioned earlier this week that the older Sinwar, who was as soon as saved by Israeli medical doctors when he was in jail in Israel, was surrounded in a bunker. Officials have described him as a “dead man walking.”
Yahya grew to become the chief of Hamas in Gaza and a member of its political bureau in 2017, based on the suppose tank the European Council on Foreign Relations. He is believed to be one of many key figures linking Hamas’ political bureau with its navy faction, the suppose tank added.
