ONLY TWO OR THREE PEOPLE KNOW LOCATION OF HAMAS LEADER SINWAR: REPORT

Hamas’s Gaza Strip leader Yahya Sinwar in a tunnel in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis, October 10, 2023 (IDF Spokesman)

Thu 04 July 2024:

There are only two or three people who know the whereabouts of Yahya Sinwar, the London-based newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat reports, citing Hamas sources, on Wednesday.

“A very small circle of no more than two or three people at most knows his whereabouts and secures his various needs, as well as ensuring his communication with the movement’s leaders inside and outside,” a source told the outlet.

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“[Israel] failed to reach many of the first and second-tier leaders [of Hamas] on the political and military levels, but it tried to assassinate some of them, some of whom were injured, and some of whom survived and came out unharmed from bombing operations in different areas and targets, but Sinwar is not among them,” the source said.

The sources quoted in the report did not specify whether Sinwar was hiding above or below ground. In February, the Israel Defense Forces released footage of what it said was Sinwar walking through a Gaza tunnel with several of his family members on October 10.

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Sources close to Sinwar told the outlet that they believe he would not consider a deal that would see him exiled.

“Sinwar is thinking of two options, with no third option as long as he is alive — either to fulfill the resistance’s conditions of stopping the war, the withdrawal of the occupation forces, and completing an honorable exchange deal, or to obtain the honor of martyrdom,” a source said.

“Beyond that, in his personal thinking, there are no other options. Such a proposal [exile from Gaza] is fundamentally unacceptable for Sinwar, and he cannot even think about it,” the source said.

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It has been reported in the past that Israel could be open to a deal that would see Sinwar exiled from the Gaza Strip. Israel had previously pledged that all Hamas leaders in Gaza would be killed or captured.

Israel, flouting a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire, has faced international condemnation amid its continued brutal offensive on Gaza since an Oct. 7, 2023 attack by Palestinian group Hamas.

Nearly 38,000 Palestinians have since been killed, mostly women and children, and around 87,000 others injured, according to local health authorities.

Over eight months into the Israeli war, vast tracts of Gaza lie in ruins amid a crippling blockade of food, clean water, and medicine.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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