Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated Wednesday that his nation’s army is now “encircling” the house of Hamas’ chief within the Gaza Strip, Yahya Sinwar.
“Last night I said that our forces can reach anywhere in the Gaza Strip. Now they are encircling Sinwar’s house. So his house is not his fortress, and he can escape, but it’s only a matter of time before we get him,” Netanyahu stated in a video announcement.
“Secondly, we exert pressure to allow the Red Cross visits of our hostages. Further to that, today I spoke again with the president of the Red Cross and told her to turn to Qatar, which has been proven to have leverage on Hamas, and demand Red Cross visits to our hostages, and of course the supply of medicine for them,” Netnayahu added.
Sinwar is believed to be someplace within the Palestinian enclave however hidden in Hamas’ huge underground community of tunnels.
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Yahya Sinwar attends a gathering in Gaza Metropolis on April 30, 2022. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP through Getty Pictures)
Referred to by Israel because the “Butcher of Khan Younis” for his violent and merciless torture strategies in opposition to his enemies, each Israeli and Palestinian, Sinwar, 60, is broadly seen as being behind the bloodbath of Israeli civilians carried out by hundreds of Hamas militants on Oct. 7.
“That man is in our sights,” Israeli Protection Forces spokesman Lt. Col. Richard Hecht advised journalists in mid-October. “Sinwar is the leader of Hamas in Gaza and he’s a dead man walking.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated it is “only a matter of time” earlier than his army captures Yahya Sinwar. (Abir Sultan/Pool Photograph through AP)
“We will get to him, however long it takes… and this war could be long,” he added.
One of many first Israeli hostages to have been freed by Hamas also said last week that she confronted Sinwar in a tunnel beneath Gaza throughout her time in captivity.
Yocheved Lifshitz, 85, advised the Israeli newspaper Davar that Sinwar paid the hostages a go to and “was with us three to four days after we arrived,” in response to Reuters.
An Israeli army helicopter flies subsequent to the Israeli-Gaza border on Wednesday, Dec. 6.
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“I asked him how he is not ashamed to do such a thing to people who all these years have supported peace,” she reportedly stated. “He didn’t answer. He was silent.”
Fox Information’ Ruth Marks Eglash contributed to this report.
