Shocking New Footage Shows Yahya Sinwar in Gaza Tunnels Hours Before Oct 7 Attack on Israel

The Israeli military on Saturday released footage that it said showed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and his family in the hours before the October 7 attack on southern Israel. The video that the IDF said is from the night of October 6 in Khan Younis, shows the Hamas leader along with three children and a woman, described by the spokesperson of the army, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, as Sinwar’s children and wife, moving back and forth through a tunnel carrying various equipment including mattresses, water bottles and other objects. Hagari said that, throughout the war, Sinwar continued to hide underground and was forced to flee to Rafah when the Israeli military went into Khan Younis, both areas located in Southern Gaza Strip. According to Hagari, Sinwar's DNA "was found on a piece of tissue" a few hundred meters from the tunnel where six Israeli hostages were found dead in Tel al-Sultan, in Rafah, last month. "There were no hostages with him when he was eliminated,” Hagari said during the briefing on Saturday where he presented a second video, which he said showed the last moments of Sinwar. The footage showed tank shelling on a building where the figure of a person, which the IDF said was Sinwar, is visible through a window before the explosion. Sinwar was 61 when he was killed. He was Hamas’ top leader and a mastermind of the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that triggered the longest, deadliest and most destructive war in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israel and Hamas have signalled resistance to ending the war in Gaza after the killing of Sinwar. The October 7th attack in Israel more than a year ago killed about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapped another 250. About 100 hostages remain in Gaza, at least 30 of whom Israel says are dead. Hamas has reiterated that the hostages won't be released until there is a cease-fire and Israeli troops withdraw. Netanyahu says Israel's military will fight until the hostages are released and will remain in Gaza to prevent a severely weakened Hamas from rearming. Israel’s retaliatory offensive in Gaza has killed more than 42,000 Palestinians, according to local health authorities, who don't distinguish combatants from civilians but say more than half the dead are women and children.