The Israeli army confirmed on Sunday, June 8, having identified the body of Mohammed Sinuar, Chief of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, murdered on May 13 in a strike in the Palestinian territory where Israel is at war with the Islamist movement.
“At the end of an identification process, it is now confirmed that Mohammed’s body but was located in the underground tunnel located under the Khan Younès Hospital,” in the south of the Gaza Strip, the army said in a statement.
“Sino was eliminated with the commander of the Rafah Brigade, Mohammad Sabaneh, during an operation (…) on May 13, 2025, while hiding in a command and underground control center,” he added.
Identity confirmed by “DNA tests and other exams”
“During the investigation carried out in the underground tunnel, several objects belonging to sinuar were found”, as well as “other bodies of terrorists” whose identification is under exam, according to the press release.
The army spokesman, the Brigade General, Effie Defrin, told journalists to whom the army showed the site on Sunday that the body of Sinuar had been found “under the hospital, just below the emergency room, an enclosure and some pieces.”
It was confirmed by “DNA tests and other exams” that the body was that of Mohammed but, he said. His death was announced on May 28 by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
His brother Yahya but, the former Hamas Supreme Chief, portrayed as the main architect of the bloody attack in Hamas in Israel on October 7, 2023, who caused the war, had been killed in Gaza in October 2024.
The enigmatic figure of Hamas in Gaza, Mohammed but, went to one of the last high -ranking managers that still activates in the Gaza Strip.
According to the experts of the Islamist movement, Mohammed but is conducting the armed branch of Hamas, the Al-Qassam brigades, considered, in the same way as their political counterpart, as a terrorist organization by the United States and the European Union in particular.
Source: BFM TV
