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Israel threatens the remaining Hamas leaders: We dropped 50 bombs in 30 seconds to eliminate them

Politiko 2025-05-31 21:05:37

Israel threatens the remaining Hamas leaders: We dropped 50 bombs in 30 seconds

Hamas leader Mohammed Sinwar was killed in an Israeli airstrike in a tunnel under the European Hospital in Khan Yunis, south of Gaza, on May 13, the Israeli Armed Forces and the Shin Bet internal security service announced on Saturday.

The joint statement said Mohammed Shabana, commander of Hamas' Rafah Brigade, and Mahdi Quara, commander of the southern Khan Younis battalion, were also killed in the attack. The Israeli Air Force also revealed that it had dropped over 50 bombs within 30 seconds to eliminate Shinwar and other Hamas figures.

After confirming the death of the Hamas leader, Defense Minister Israel Katz warned the organization's remaining leaders in Gaza and abroad that it was their turn.

"Now it's official: The killer Mohammed Sinwar was eliminated along with the commander of the Rafah Brigade, Mohammed Shabana, and the evil gang that was with them under the European Hospital in Gaza, and was sent to meet his brother at the gates of hell," Katz said in a statement.

"Izz al-Din Haddad in Gaza and Khalil al-Hayya abroad and all their partners in crime, you are next," he adds.

The former is Hamas' commander in Gaza City and the de facto highest-ranking official in the Gaza Strip, while the latter is a member of Hamas' leadership council abroad.

He is the younger brother of Yahya Sinwar, an early Hamas leader who was killed in an exchange of fire with Israelis in Gaza in 2024.

"The terrorists were neutralized while operating in an underground command and control center, under the European Hospital in Khan Yunis, deliberately endangering the civilian population in and around the hospital," the Israeli military said, adding that, thanks to the information gathered, it was a precise operation to avoid harming civilians.

The IDF describes him as "one of the highest-ranking and long-serving members of Hamas' military wing" who "played an important role in planning and executing" the October 7 attack as the head of operations at the time.

After the assassination of military commander Muhammad Deif, Sinwar took over the leadership of the terrorist organization's military wing, and his brother Yahya was killed, becoming the de facto leader of the terrorist group in the Gaza Strip. He was previously commander of the Khan Younis Brigade and head of Hamas's military operations department, participating in the kidnapping of soldier Gilad Shali in 2006.

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