Israel investigates if Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar has been killed in Gaza | EUROtoday

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The Israeli army says it’s investigating whether or not Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar – seen because the mastermind of the 7 October assault – has been killed in Gaza.

The Israeli army mentioned on Thursday that it was checking the chance that it has killed Sinwar following a latest operation that it mentioned had focused three militants.

“At this stage, the identity of the terrorists cannot be confirmed,” it mentioned in a press release.

The army mentioned there have been no indicators that hostages had been current within the constructing the place the three have been killed. There had been stories from the Israeli military that Sinwar had been hiding amongst hostages, utilizing them as human shields.

Sinwar was chosen because the group’s high chief following the assassination of Ismael Haniyeh in July in an obvious Israeli strike within the Iranian capital Tehran.

In latest months, Israel has killed a number of commanders of Hamas in Gaza in addition to senior figures of Hezbollah in Lebanon – together with its veteran chief Hassan Nasrallah – because it has intensified strikes, significantly towards Hezbollah in Lebanon.

It comes as at the very least 28 Palestinians together with kids have been killed in an Israeli strike on a shelter within the northern Gaza Strip, a Gaza well being ministry official mentioned. Dozens of individuals have been additionally injured within the strike, well being ministry official Medhat Abbas informed Reuters, as Israel’s bloody assault on northern Gaza continues. The Hamas-run Gaza authorities media workplace put the variety of wounded at 160.

The Israeli army mentioned dozens of militants have been current on the strike, claiming it had carried out a exact strike on Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters contained in the compound.

Tanks have been despatched by the Israeli army into Jabalia within the north, the place United Nations officers expressed concern over shortages of meals and drugs as Israel faces accusations of a coverage of hunger in northern Gaza.

Israel has stopped processing requests from merchants to import meals into Gaza, Reuters reported 12 folks concerned within the commerce as saying. Since October 11, Gazan merchants haven’t been in a position to entry the system which permits them to import meals from Gaza and the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

The circulation of products has hit its lowest stage because the begin of the struggle, in keeping with a Reuters evaluation of official Israeli information.

The shift has pushed the circulation of products arriving in Gaza to its lowest stage because the begin of the struggle, a Reuters evaluation of official Israeli information reveals. The particulars of the halt in business items into Gaza haven’t been beforehand reported.

It comes as a report by the International Labour Organisation revealed unemployment in Gaza hit almost 80 per cent because the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas struggle, with nearly the whole 2.3 million inhabitants pressured into poverty.

Referring to each Gaza and the West Bank, the ILO mentioned the battle had brought about “unprecedented and wide-ranging devastation on the labour market and the wider economy across the Occupied Palestinian Territory”.

Gaza’s financial output has additionally shrunk by 85 per cent since Israel’s invasion started final October in response to the Hamas assaults on October 7, through which 1,139 Israelis have been killed in keeping with Israeli tallies.

Israel has killed greater than 42,000 Palestinians in its subsequent invasion and bombardment of Gaza, in keeping with Gaza’s well being authorities.

Referring to each Gaza and the West Bank, the ILO mentioned the battle had brought about “unprecedented and wide-ranging devastation on the labour market and the wider economy across the Occupied Palestinian Territory”.

Elsewhere, Syrian state media reported that Israel had struck Syria’s port metropolis of Latakia early on Thursday, whereas the US deployed its B-2 bomber aircraft for the primary time since 2017 to strike Houthi insurgent underground weapons storages in Yemen.

The commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps Hossein Salam, in the meantime, warned Israel towards responding to the Iranian missile assault on October 1.

Warning that Iranian missiles might penetrate Israel’s Iron Dome defence system, Mr Salami mentioned: “We tell you (Israel) that if you commit any aggression against any point we will painfully attack the same point of yours.”