This is the moment Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar’s wife is seen apparently holding a $32,000 bag in the tunnel leading to his secret lair.
The IDF released disturbing images and videos showing Yahya Sinwar cruelly hiding in relative comfort from his underground lair while ordering his terrorist group to carry out the bloodiest massacre Israel has ever endured.
Sinwar, who was killed with a single gunshot to the head this week after being forced out of his underground lair in Gaza, planned to hide comfortably while his foot soldiers carried out the deadliest attack in Israel’s history on the 7th. October 2023.
He is widely considered the chief architect of the bloody massacre, in which Hamas and other terrorist groups killed 1,200 people and took 250 hostage, according to Israeli counts.
Footage of his wife appears to show her entering through the tunnel to the den, carrying a Birkin bag, the day before the horrendous tragedy.
Footage of his wife appears to show her entering through the tunnel to the den, carrying a Birkin bag, the day before the horrendous tragedy. She is seen appearing to smile at the camera.
This is the moment the wife of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar is seen apparently holding a bag of $32,000 in the tunnel leading to his secret lair.
The time on the clock at the end of the footage is 1:32 am, just five hours before the first terrorists were seen breaking into Israeli territory.
More than a year later, 101 hostages remain captive in Gaza.
An IDF spokesperson posted the images of the wife on
The IDF has also released a three-minute video showing Sinwar, flanked by small children, mundanely carrying water bottles, plastic bags, furniture and other supplies through a tunnel to his hideout.
Chillingly, the activity took place in the dead of night, just hours before Hamas launched the bloodiest massacre Israel has ever suffered.
Sinwar can be seen repeatedly walking back and forth through the same tunnel, starting at 10:44 p.m. on October 6, just eight hours before terrified citizens first reported a massive terrorist attack.
The first to emerge from the dark tunnel, with electrical cables snaking along the entire ceiling, are two small children with backpacks.
One is wearing an FC Barcelona shirt and a backpack, the other is wearing a blue Ronaldo shirt with the number 7 on the back and an additional pink bag on his shoulder.
These are the disturbing images that show Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar cruelly hiding in relative comfort from his underground lair while ordering his terrorist group to carry out the bloodiest massacre Israel has ever suffered.
Sinwar’s lair, discovered by Israeli soldiers in the Tel al-Sultan area, had good resources: food, water and other supplies to help him survive for months underground.
Behind them is Sinwar, plastic bags in hand, followed by a woman wearing a hijab and a black bag, believed to be his wife.
When he notices the camera above, he pauses briefly and smiles before continuing.
Minutes later, Sinwar is seen again, this time returning with more bags.
At 11:41 p.m. and in the moments following, Sinwar can be seen carrying bottles of water and large bags on his back in a repeated process that continues for the next few hours.
Throughout, Sinwar maintains a chilling calm and walks at a casual pace.
At 00:46, one of the children can be seen still helping Sinwar, who has started moving small furniture and cushions.
Almost an hour later, at 1:32 in the morning, the young man and Sinwar drag a larger object, which was covered with a gray patterned cloth.
The time on the clock at the end of the footage is 1:32 in the morning, just five hours before the first terrorists were seen breaking into Israeli territory.
Two images provide evidence of the meticulous planning that went into ensuring that Sinwar maintained good resources in his underground lair, which was discovered by Israeli soldiers in the Tel al-Sultan area.
They show how the Hamas leader could watch the exploits of his terrorist group on a television hanging on the wall from the comfort of a makeshift sofa with cushions and pillows.
Fans anchored to the walls stabilized the hot, humid temperatures during the warmer months, while a clock, reading books, chairs, and other supplies scattered around the room helped sustain their stay underground.
A second image shows several more chairs, a Hamas flag and even a makeshift clothesline.
A unit of the IDF’s 828th Bislamach Brigade was patrolling Tal al-Sultan, an area of Rafah, on Wednesday morning when it encountered a group of three Hamas fighters on the street and confronted them in a shooting.
The terrorists were “on the run” moving from house to house, the IDF said, and they split up.
One of them, since identified as Sinwar, “ran alone toward one of the buildings.” He went up to the second floor and the troops responded by firing a tank shell in his direction.
The unit, made up of infantry commanders in training and reservists, then began sweeping the area, according to Israeli media.
Two grenades were thrown at them, one of which exploded while the other did not explode, Ynet reports.
The troops decided it was too dangerous to continue and withdrew, instead sending a mini drone to track the fleeing fighter.
Dramatic footage released by the IDF shows the bloodied Sinwar, his face hidden by a scarf, throwing a stick in a last-ditch attempt to fend off the drone just seconds before he was killed.
According to Israeli reports, two 120mm tank shells hit the building, as well as a Matador surface-to-surface missile, with shrapnel cutting into the upper floors.
Unaware that they had eliminated Israel’s main target, the soldiers did not return to the site until Thursday morning, when soldiers from the 450th Infantry Battalion were sent to take a closer look.
As they inspected the dead, they noticed that one bore a striking resemblance to the Hamas leader.
Sinwar, the architect of the October 7 massacre and Israel’s most wanted man, was killed on Wednesday after being hunted by intelligence services and the Israel Defense Forces for more than a year. In the photo: Sinwar in December 2022
Graphic images emerged of his corpse lying on rubble surrounded by Israeli soldiers, while close-ups showed a catastrophic head wound and multiple wounds.
He was found with a gun, a bulletproof vest and 40,000 shekels (£8,250).
“Yahya Sinouar had a lot of cash and fake passports with him, he was ready to flee,” Israeli army spokesman Colonel Olivier Rafowicz told French media CNEWS.
He claimed that the items Sinwar had with him, which allegedly also included a card from UNRWA, the UN aid for Palestinian refugees, “may show that he was ready to flee and leave Gaza and his men behind.”
Booby traps around the area forced the body to be left in place, but part of one of its fingers was removed and sent for analysis.
Confirmation of his death took several hours, multiple tests were performed, and his identity was finally confirmed with dental records and fingerprints.
Four hours after confirming that they were investigating whether the Hamas leader had been killed, the military issued a simple message on social media: “Eliminated: Yahya Sinwar.”
Sinwar had been a prime target of Israeli forces since October 7, but Israel was reportedly hesitant to carry out an assassination attempt amid reports that he was surrounded by Israeli hostages and carrying a bag full of explosives.
Sinwar is believed to have been moving from location to location without the hostages since late August, when six hostages (Carmel Gat, Hirsch Goldberg-Poulin, Alex Lubnov, Almog Sarosi, Uri Danino and the late Aden Yerushalmi) were found dead. in a tunnel, according to a new report from N12.
Israeli troops reported no signs of hostages at the location where he was killed.
IDF spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari confirmed the Hamas leader’s death in a televised statement Thursday night.
He said: ‘Sinwar was responsible for the most brutal attack on Israel in our history when terrorists from Gaza invaded Israel, massacred Israelis in their homes, raped our women, burned entire families alive and took away more than 250 men, women and children, babies. Gaza hostage.
‘Over the past year, Sinwar attempted to escape justice. Failure. We said we would find him and bring him to justice, and we did.
“It was Yahya Sinwar who decided to wage war on Israel while hiding behind civilians in Gaza.”
He added that 101 hostages still remain in captivity in “brutal conditions.”
