Yahya Sinwar Threw Stick at Drone Just Before Death, According to Israel Video

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was tracked by an Israeli mini drone as he lay dying in the ruins of a building in southern Gaza and filmed him slumped in a chair covered in dust, according to video released by Israeli authorities on Thursday.

As the drone hovered nearby, the video showed him throwing a stick at it, in an apparent act of desperation or defiance. Not long afterwards, the military said, a tank shell was fired into the building.

...Intelligence services had been gradually restricting the area where Sinwar could operate, the military said. But unlike other militant leaders tracked down by Israel, including Hamas military commander Mohammed Deif, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike on July 13, the encounter which finally killed Sinwar was not a planned and targeted strike, or an operation carried out by elite commandos.

...The troops saw three suspected militants moving between buildings, two of whom were wearing a blanket-like covering, apparently intended to hide their identities as fighters, military spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani told reporters.

The troops opened fire, leading to a gunbattle, during which one of the Palestinians was hit in the arm and one Israeli soldier was severely wounded.
As the gunbattle went on, two of the fighters went into one building and the third, who turned out later to be Sinwar, went into another where the drone was sent in to investigate.

Wary of booby traps and with evening closing in, the troops did not enter the building until the next day.

"The morning afterwards, they discovered the body and realised this could be Sinwar," Shoshani s

...MONEY AND DOCUMENTS

When the troops reached him, his body was found with a weapon, a flak jacket and 40,000 shekels ($10,731.63) as well as various documents that suggested he was forced to shift location as the Israeli search closed around him.

"He had money on him, documents and he was on the go," Shoshani said.

🔗SOURCE ➡️ Reuters

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