The Israeli army said today that it had found the body of the military leader of "Hamas" Mohammed Sinwar in an underground tunnel under a hospital in the southern Gaza Strip, following a targeted operation last week, Reuters reported, quoted by BTA.
Another senior Hamas leader, Mohammed Shabana, commander of the Rafah Brigade, was also found dead at the site along with several other fighters who are yet to be identified, IDF spokesman Brigadier General Effie Defrin said.
Israeli forces granted a small group of foreign reporters access to the tunnel, which was discovered under the European Hospital in Khan Yunis, which Defrin said was a major command and control point for Hamas.
"This is another example of Hamas"s cynical use of "...using civilians as human shields, using civilian infrastructure, hospitals, over and over again," Defrin said.
"We found under the hospital, right under the emergency room, several rooms. In one of them we found, we killed Mohammed Sinwar," he said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Sinwar was dead last month, but Defrin said they now have his DNA, which proves beyond a doubt that it was him.
"Hamas" has not commented on the reports of either Sinwar's or Shabana's deaths.