The Hamas terror group confirmed the death of its former Gaza military chief, Muhammad Sinwar, late Saturday, several months after Israel said it killed him in a strike in May.

Hamas did not provide details on Sinwar’s death or a statement, but published pictures and video of him along with other group leaders killed by Israel, describing them as “martyrs.”

Muhammad Sinwar was the younger brother of Yahya Sinwar, the former leader of the terror group, who co-masterminded the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, and whom Israel had killed in combat a year later.

Muhammad became the de facto leader of the terror group in Gaza following Israel’s killing of Yahya last October.

Israel targeted him in a strike in May of this year, and assessed some weeks later that he had been killed.

The photo Hamas published was part of previously unseen footage of its former leaders, the architects of the October 7 massacre in southern Israel, all of whom have been killed in........

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