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This video footage, released by the Israel Defense Forces, claims to show the last moments of Yahya Sinwar after he was spotted by a drone on Wednesday (17October2024).

Sinwar was the main architect of the 7 October 2023 attack, led by Hamas, on Israel, in which about 1,200 people were killed. About 250 people were also taken hostage. Around 100 hostages remain in Gaza, including 34 who Israeli officials say are dead. The brutal 7 October attack has set off a war in which Gazan officials claim at least 40,000 Palestinians have died.

Israeli officials said Sinwar was found not by special forces but by infantry soldiers searching an area in the Tal El Sultan area of southern Gaza. Israeli officials have claimed they have evidence he was in the same tunnel as one nearby where six Israeli hostages were found murdered on Wednesday.