Fight in Khan Yunis
Israel: Army surrounds Hamas leader’s house
December 6th, 2023, 8:25 p.m
Hamas boss Jihia al-Sinwar is said to have met the kidnapped hostages recently, and now the Israeli army is already on his doorstep. It is considered unlikely that the terrorist leader will be found there, but Israel’s president is sure that he will be tracked down soon.
According to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s army has surrounded the house of the head of the Islamist Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Jihia al-Sinwar could escape, Netanyahu said, according to his office, “but it’s only a matter of time before we find him.” Sinwar’s house is reportedly in Khan Yunis. Israel’s army recently expanded its attacks in the Gaza Strip to include the largest city in the south of the sealed-off coastal strip. It is considered a Hamas stronghold.
Experts suspect that the leadership and thousands of Hamas members may have holed up in the extensive network of tunnels beneath the Gaza Strip. It recently became known that the Hamas leader is said to have met the kidnapped hostages, as ntv reporter Alexandra Callenius reported.
Sinwar was convicted by Israel in 1988 of murdering four suspected collaborators and two Israeli soldiers. He spent more than two decades in Israeli custody. In 2011, Sinwar was one of more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners released in exchange for the Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit who was kidnapped in the Gaza Strip. In 2017 he became head of Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Sinwar has been at the top of Israel’s hit list since the massacre by Hamas and other groups in the Israeli border area on October 7, in which around 1,200 people were killed.
Weapon cache found near hospital
Fighting also continued in the north of the Gaza Strip. The Israeli army says it has discovered a huge weapons cache near a hospital and a school. There were hundreds of rocket-propelled grenades and rocket-propelled grenades, dozens of anti-tank missiles, dozens of explosive devices, longer-range rockets, dozens of grenades and drones, the army said. It is “one of the largest weapons caches” that have been discovered in the Gaza Strip to date.
The weapons were taken by the soldiers, some were being further examined, others were destroyed on site. “The entire terrorist infrastructure was located right next to residential buildings in the heart of the civilian population,” the spokesman wrote. “This is further evidence of the terrorist organization Hamas’ cynical use of Gaza residents as human shields.”