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Yahya Sinwar
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Yahya Sinwar was a Palestinian politician and militant who served as the fourth chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau and the leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Born in the Khan Yunis refugee camp in 1962, he co-founded Hamas's security apparatus and spent 22 years in Israeli prison for orchestrating the abduction and killing of two Israeli soldiers and four Palestinians. Released in a 2011 prisoner exchange, he was elected leader of Hamas in Gaza in 2017 and re-elected in 2021. Regarded as the mastermind behind the October 7 attacks in 2023, Sinwar was killed in a clash with the Israel Defense Forces in October 2024.
In the news: The Israeli military published a letter and drawings from the start of the Gaza war written by his 10-year-old son, expressing a desire to take up arms and shoot Jews.
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