Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar weakly threw piece of wood at Israeli drone just moments before he was killed, shocking footage shows
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An Israeli drone captured Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar’s last minutes alive — as the Oct. 7 mastermind tossed a piece of wood in a futile attempt to take out the device before he was killed, officials said.
Shocking footage shows the moment a drone is deployed to check a building in Rafah that a group of IDF soldiers hit on Thursday.
An injured Sinwar, who had his face covered and appeared be missing his right hand, could be seen sitting alone on a chair in the destroyed building, with the IDF soldiers unaware that they were seeing the very man they had been hunting since he ordered the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack on the Jewish state.
When Sinwar finally notices the drone hovering just a few feet from him, he struggles, using his left hand, to fling an object at the UAV in a last-ditch effort to keep hi🐬s whereabouts hidden.
The 🉐sꦏoldiers then ordered a second strike on the building, killing Sinwar and two other Hamas terrorists who were traveling with him.
After recovering the body and 🍸comparing it to the DNA samples the Israeli military retrieved from Sinwar during his time as a prisoner, officials confirmed the man killed in the strike was the terror chief.
IDF spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari told reporters that Sinwar had likely been💝 shot in his hand and taken refuge in the building when it was hit by the Israeli troops.
Hagari said Sinwar was likely on the move trying to escape north amid the Israeli military’s advance in Rafah, to which hundreds of thousands of Palestinians had fled earlier this year.
Sinwar’s death has been hailed by US and Israeli officials as a major blow to Hamas with the potential of ending the war in Gaza and freeing the remaining 97 hostages who were abducted on Oct. 7.
“To the people of Gaza, I have a simple message,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement. “This war can end tomorrow.
“It can end if Hamas lays down its arms and returns our hostages. Israel will guarantee the safety of all those who return our hostages,” Netanyahu added.
