Footage shows Hamas’ Gaza chief seen fleeing in tunnel with family
, the top Hamas official in Gaza and one of the masterminds of the Oct 7 terror attacks, is believed to still be alive — hiding like a “cornered rat” in the tunnels of the Palestinian territory, despite the Israel i military naming him enemy No. 1., Sinwar has survived by staying radio-silent and using Israel i hostages and innocent Palestinians as human shields to protect him, said Colin Clarke, a counter-terrorism expert at New York-based Soufan Group.
It’s believed he spent much of the war hiding in Rafah in the south until Israel launched military operations in the final Hamas stronghold city.“Any movement is done with the utmost secrecy because it risks outing his location to the IDF,” Keane said. The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry claimed that 37,500 people have been killed in Gaza since the start of the war. The group does not differentiate between terrorists and civilians.
But convincing a Palestinian to turn on Sinwar might be harder than expected, given the Gaza chief’s brutal history cracking down on traitors. “His capture and the years he spent in jail built up his reputation, his ‘street cred,’ and that helped him rise among the ranks when he returned to Gaza,” Clarke said.Just a year after he was freed, Sinwar was elected as a member of Hamas’ political bureau, with his popularity and ruthlessness garnering a large following in the ranks of the brutal Islamist terror group.
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