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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Yahya_SinwarYahya Sinwar - Wikipedia

    Yahya Sinwar (Arabic: يحيى السنوار, romanized: Yaḥyá al-Sanwār; born 29 October 1962), also spelled Yehya Sinwar, is a Palestinian politician who has been leader of Hamas within the Gaza Strip since 2017. Hamas is the Sunni Islamist political and military organization that rules the Gaza Strip.

  2. www.cnn.com › 2024/06/20 › middleeastHe saved the life of Hamas’s leader. Then they murdered his...

    Jun 20, 2024 · It was there he met “the person” – Yahya Sinwar, a Hamas militant convicted of murder who would go on to become the group’s leader in Gaza – saying he saved his life by helping diagnose ...

  3. edition.cnn.com › 2024/06/11 › politicsUS intelligence suggests Sinwar believes Hamas has upper hand in...

    Jun 11, 2024 · American Intelligence officials believe that Yahya Sinwar, the powerful leader of Hamas in Gaza who is thought to be the group’s key decisionmaker on any potential ceasefire deal, likely ...

  4. www.cnn.com › 2023/12/07 › middleeastWho is Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader Israel has called a ‘dead...

    Dec 7, 2023 · The Israeli prime minister said Wednesday that Israeli forces had surrounded the house of Yahya Sinwar, potentially closing in on the top Hamas official in Gaza – and the man most wanted by ...

  5. www.bbc.com › news › world-middle-east-67473719Yahya Sinwar: Who is the Hamas leader in Gaza? - BBC

    Yahya Sinwar has disappeared. Hardly surprising when thousands of Israeli troops backed by drones, electronic eavesdropping devices and human informants, are all trying to discover his...

  6. www.nbcnews.com › news › worldWho is Yahya Sinwar, Hamas' leader in Gaza being hunted by...

    Oct 15, 2023 · Born in a Gaza refugee camp in the early 1960s, Sinwar joined Hamas after it was founded in 1987, gaining a reputation for brutality after he reportedly helped to form the militant group’s...

  7. www.nytimes.com › 2024/05/12 › worldYahya Sinwar Helped Start the War in Gaza. Now He’s Key to Its...

    May 12, 2024 · After Hamas attacked Israel in October, igniting the war in Gaza, Israeli leaders described the group’s most senior official in the territory, Yahya Sinwar, as a “dead man walking.”

  8. www.nbcnews.com › news › worldHunt for Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar heats up after video emerges -...

    The hunt for Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar is heating up after footage emerged of him in a Gaza tunnel under the southern city of Khan Younis. “We’ll kill him,” an IDF spokesperson said.

  9. www.nytimes.com › 2023/10/16 › worldYahya Sinwar, Hamas’s Leader in Gaza, Is At the Top of Israel’s...

    Oct 16, 2023 · The Israeli military calls Yahya Sinwar, the hard-line leader of Hamas in Gaza, the “face of evil.”. And senior officers say he is the top target for the tens of thousands of Israeli troops ...

  10. abcnews.go.com › International › yahya-sinwar-hamas-wanted-terroristWho is Yahya Sinwar, Israel's most-wanted Hamas terrorist

    Dec 22, 2023 · Yahya Sinwar is accused by Israel of masterminding the deadliest terror attack in Israeli history on Oct. 7 of this year when 1,200 Israelis were killed.