HE SHOT THE DRONE WITH A STICK: These are the final moments of the only remaining Hamas leader! (VIDEO)

Israeli officials, security services, and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced on Thursday that Yahya Sinwar, the only remaining leader of Hamas, was killed in an Israeli operation in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. Sinwar is believed to be primarily responsible for planning the bloody incursion of fighters from the Iran-supported Palestinian group into Israel on October 7 of last year, which resulted in a massacre and the kidnapping of over 200 people, many of whom are still in captivity.

Following the attack, Israel launched a retaliatory military operation in the Gaza Strip, resulting in the deaths of several tens of thousands of Palestinians, mostly civilians, over just more than a year. This operation has faced sharp criticism from the international community but with little effect, as Israeli forces continue military operations in Gaza. The situation escalated with Israeli operations against the pro-Iranian Shiite group Hezbollah in Lebanon, culminating in the assassination of the group’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, and a series of other high-ranking officials, after which Iran carried out a massive missile attack on Israel in October. A response from Israel to that attack is still expected, according to Jutarnji list.

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IDF Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi, stated that Israeli forces did not have prior intelligence indicating that the Hamas leader was in the targeted building. Yahya Sinwar was considered the only remaining leader of this Palestinian group after the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’s political leader, in Tehran on July 31. He was killed by an explosive device secretly smuggled into the luxury hotel where he was staying, according to Middle Eastern officials. The hotel was managed and secured by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Haniyeh was in the Iranian capital for the presidential inauguration of Masoud Pezeshkian, who was elected to the position following the death of President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash in May.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that the assassination of the Hamas leader marked “the beginning of the day after Hamas.” “Hamas will no longer rule Gaza,” Netanyahu said. “This is an opportunity for you, the residents of Gaza, to finally free yourselves from his tyranny,” he told the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. “Sinwar has destroyed your lives. He told you he was a lion, but he actually hid in a dark den and was killed while fleeing in panic from our soldiers,” he added. He stated that Hamas leaders would be eliminated, but all those holding Israeli hostages would survive if they laid down their arms and released the captives. Netanyahu said that Sinwar’s assassination clearly demonstrated to critics in Israel and abroad why his government insists on continuing the war. “Why did we insist, despite all the pressures, to enter Rafah, a fortified Hamas stronghold, where Sinwar and many killers were hiding?”

U.S. President Joe Biden called the assassination of Yahya Sinwar “a good day for Israel, for the United States, and for the world.” In a statement, Biden noted that Sinwar was responsible for “unspeakable savagery” in Israel on October 7 and “so much that followed.”

After it was confirmed that Sinwar was dead, Israelis released an astonishing video of the last moments of the Hamas chief. When they discovered someone in a destroyed building, the IDF sent a drone to capture footage of who it was. What the camera recorded was incredible – Sinwar was sitting injured in an armchair, trying to hit the drone with a stick.