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Who is Yahya Sinwar? The Israeli prisoner turned terrorist Hamas leader who is suspected dead
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Sinwar rose to the top position after the killing of previous leader Ismail Haniyeh in the explosion of a guesthouse in Tehran on July 30.
Referred to by Israel as "The Butcher of Khan Younis" for his violent and cruel torture methods against his enemies, both Israeli and Palestinian, Sinwar, 61, is widely seen as being behind the massacre of Israeli civilians carried out by thousands of Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7.
The IDF has long targeted Sinwar, referring to him as a "dead man walking."
"We will get to him, however long it takes… and this war could be long," said IDF spokesman Lt. Col. Richard Hecht last year.
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