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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.
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 ...
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.”
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 ...
Nov 21, 2023 · Sinwar, who has striking snow-white hair and jet-black eyebrows, is the leader of Hamas's political wing in Gaza, and one of Israel's most wanted men. It holds him responsible along with others...
May 26, 2024 · Yahya Sinwar, left, and Dr. Yuval Bitton at Israel’s Beersheba prison complex, during negotiations for a prisoner swap that would lead to Mr. Sinwar’s 2011 release.
Nov 5, 2023 · Decades before he orchestrated the October 7 attacks by Hamas on Israel, Yahya Sinwar was jailed by an Israeli military tribunal for multiple murders. His response: to study Hebrew.
