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2024-10-17 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
*Unconfirmed reports* Yahya Sinwar Dead UPDATE: ULULULU! The witch is definitely dead!

[TH and Fox News reports] Top Hamas leader and October 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar is dead. The news was reported by Israeli media outlets Thursday morning and appeared to be confirmed by Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in a cryptic tweet.

According to reports, U.S. officials have been notified by the Israeli Defense Forces that they are in possession of Sinwar's body and he was targeted in an airstrike Thursday.

Prior to his planning of the October 7, 2023 attacks, Sinwar was graciously and mercifully treated for a brain tumor in Israel. In 2011, he was released in a prisoner exchange after spending 22-years behind bars for terrorism.

The latest elimination of Sinwar comes after weeks of successful targeting by the IDF and other Israeli agencies of Iran's top terrorists, including the killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut.
Courtesy of Skidmark, the Jerusalem Post also says high likelihood:
Security officials have said that the chances that Hamas
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
 leader Yahya Sinwar was killed in a strike in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
 are "increasingly higher," Israeli media reported on Thursday. The IDF and Shin Bet (ISA) put out a joint statement on the possible liquidation earlier Thursday.

"Initial report - During IDF operations in the Gaza Strip, three Lions of Islam were eliminated. The IDF and ISA are checking the possibility that one of the Lions of Islam was Yahya Sinwar. At this stage, the identity of the Lions of Islam cannot be confirmed," the IDF said.

"In the building where the Lions of Islam were eliminated, there were no signs of the presence of hostages in the area. The forces that are operating in the area are continuing to operate with the required caution."

Sky News Arabia published a report shortly after, quoting a security official as saying that his death is confirmed.
NewsNation: Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar is dead, Israeli military sources confirmed to NewsNation, following an initial DNA check.
Posted by Frank G 2024-10-17 10:25|| || Front Page|| [11149 views ]  Top
 File under: Hamas 

#1 NYPost: ‘High likelihood’ Hamas leader and Oct. 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar has been killed in Gaza strike: Israeli official
Posted by Frank G 2024-10-17 10:29||   2024-10-17 10:29|| Front Page Top

#2 IDF 'very likely' kills Gaza's 'Bin Laden,' Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-10-17 11:29||   2024-10-17 11:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Israel have his hospital records. Good news can wait/ bad news will refuse to leave.
Posted by Difar Dave 2024-10-17 11:30||   2024-10-17 11:30|| Front Page Top

#4 Who called dibs on the ears?
Posted by SteveS 2024-10-17 11:37||   2024-10-17 11:37|| Front Page Top

#5 Breitbart: Update: (Members of the security cabinet were reportedly told that Sinwar had indeed been killed, though there was, as of 6:00 p.m. Thursday evening, no public confirmation.

Dental and orthodontic experts confirmed that the body was Sinwar’s according to the Jerusalem Post.

Army Radio reported that one of the two terrorists found near the body was that of the leader of Hamas’s Khan Yunis brigade, who was known to be close to Sinwar.)

According to reports circulating on social media, it appeared that soldiers were simply carrying out a routine attack on a building in which three terrorists had taken cover. They were shocked to discover who one of them might be.

Some speculated that with Sinwar dead, it may be easier to achieve a hostage deal, since he was a main obstacle.
Posted by Frank G 2024-10-17 12:40||   2024-10-17 12:40|| Front Page Top

#6 It’s now officially official. ;-) Times of Israel liveblog, seven minutes ago:

FM Katz becomes first Israeli official to confirm Sinwar’s death, in message to foreign counterparts

In a message to dozens of foreign ministers around the world, Foreign Minister Israel Katz confirms that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was killed, becoming the first Israeli official to do so on the record.

“The mass murderer Yahya Sinwar, who is responsible for the massacre and atrocities of October 7, was killed today by IDF soldiers,” says Katz, according to his office.

“This is a great military and moral achievement for Israel and a victory for the entire free world against the evil axis of radical Islam led by Iran,” he continues.

Katz says the killing “creates a possibility” for getting the hostages out immediately and for creating a Gaza free of Hamas and Iranian control.

“Israel needs your support and assistance now more than ever to advance these important goals together,” Katz finishes.
Posted by trailing wife 2024-10-17 12:53||   2024-10-17 12:53|| Front Page Top

#7 Good teamwork, guys — thank you all.
Posted by trailing wife 2024-10-17 12:55||   2024-10-17 12:55|| Front Page Top

#8 Story set as today’s headline.
Posted by trailing wife 2024-10-17 13:38||   2024-10-17 13:38|| Front Page Top

#9 NY Post pics of corpse in-situ show a pixelated forehead:
Head Shot!
Posted by Frank G 2024-10-17 14:03||   2024-10-17 14:03|| Front Page Top

#10 Yep
Posted by Frank G 2024-10-17 14:09||   2024-10-17 14:09|| Front Page Top

#11 Good shootin' Tex.

Who's next?
Posted by alanc 2024-10-17 14:20||   2024-10-17 14:20|| Front Page Top

#12 Sinwar gets raisins, we get a world without Sinwar. Win-Win!
Posted by Angstrom 2024-10-17 14:27||   2024-10-17 14:27|| Front Page Top

#13 He didn't even get the dignity of the lead story, which goes to Liam Payne (whoever that is) defenestrating.
Posted by Penguin_of_the_Best_Desert 2024-10-17 14:36||   2024-10-17 14:36|| Front Page Top

#14 Killed by a reservist, who wasn't in the army a year ago, and will never have to buy another beer in his life.
Posted by ed in texas 2024-10-17 14:46||   2024-10-17 14:46|| Front Page Top

#15 Official Mourning at the WaPo
Posted by Procopius2k 2024-10-17 15:46||   2024-10-17 15:46|| Front Page Top

#16 'Austere UN Patron'
Posted by swksvolFF 2024-10-17 16:35||   2024-10-17 16:35|| Front Page Top

#17 Ding Dong that witch is dead.
Posted by alanc 2024-10-17 17:12||   2024-10-17 17:12|| Front Page Top

#18 Good gun control makes good things happen!
Posted by Oregon Dave 2024-10-17 17:18||   2024-10-17 17:18|| Front Page Top

#19 Drone footage of Sinwar right before the second tank round turned him into pig food.
Posted by Silentbrick 2024-10-17 17:39||   2024-10-17 17:39|| Front Page Top

#20 ^ That is awesome
Posted by Frank G 2024-10-17 18:20||   2024-10-17 18:20|| Front Page Top

#21 The big winner is whomever has access to his Swiss account. What was he doing in harm’s way to begin with?
Posted by Super Hose 2024-10-17 18:30||   2024-10-17 18:30|| Front Page Top

#22 ..that would be the Swiss bank. You think anyone really wants to expose who they are by claiming it. See - Jews trying to recover assets from Swiss banks after WW2
Posted by Procopius2k 2024-10-17 18:55||   2024-10-17 18:55|| Front Page Top

#23 WONDERFUL news, i nearly choked on my wheeties!

Saw this on msnbc on drudge also where they describe Hamas as “Iranian-backed terror group” which is misleading as they are “The Gazan wing of the Muslim Brotherhood” who hide in Qatar

The death of Sinwar is great
The media lies are not great and are a bad sign of misdirecting the public so they can end the war on Gaza before the problem is addressed

Those muslim arabs in Gaza must be resettled in qatar, egypt and jordan or else we will only be fighting this same Muslim Brotherhood in 15 years.

One generatiom is all it takes because without ripping out the Muslim Brotherhood then all you have done is destroy a replaceable cog in the system

Sinwar falls but others are rising. Until you defeat the Muslim Brotherhood and Qatar

And how can you do that if the subject is changed to Iran before the job is done?

Posted by Anon1 2024-10-17 19:47||   2024-10-17 19:47|| Front Page Top

#24 Saw this on msnbc on drudge

Nuff said
Posted by Frank G 2024-10-17 19:52||   2024-10-17 19:52|| Front Page Top

#25 I too noticed they went right on past Conspiracy! Lies! and right on to Yeah He Dead So Go Home Now!

Dropped him like Willie Brown's pants.
Posted by swksvolFF 2024-10-17 21:36||   2024-10-17 21:36|| Front Page Top

#26  where they describe Hamas as “Iranian-backed terror group” which is misleading as they are “The Gazan wing of the Muslim Brotherhood” who hide in Qatar

Both are true, Anon1. Iran also finances Palestinian Islamic Jihad, another Sunni jihadi group in Gaza. They have a long-held plan for obliterating Israelby a pincer movement —10,000+ rockets and Sunni Hamas/Islamic Jihad jihadis bursting east from Gaza simultaneously with an uprising in the West Bank, and 150,000 missiles and Hezbollah Shiite jihadis heading west from Lebanon, followed by the big missiles from Iran — including the threat of nuclear missiles as soon as their uranium gas is concentrated enough to do whatever it is they do to make a bomb core. But they jumped the gun once in the West Bank — kidnapping a trio of school boys, and by the time the manhunt found the bad guys, momentum was lost. Twice Hamas blew it — the first time shooting off their stock of rockets to no avail, the second time on 10/7.

So Iran has spent an awful lot of money training, arming,and supporting the salaries of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza and presumably others in the West Bank, plus the claimed 100,000 soldiers of Hezbollah, and they’ve annoyed Israel but aren’t anywhere close to their goal of destroying Israel.
Posted by trailing wife 2024-10-17 22:51||   2024-10-17 22:51|| Front Page Top

10:57 Frank G
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