Yahya Sinwar: Hamas leader described as architect of 7 October attack
Head of militant group in Gaza spent 23 years in Israeli jails, before being released in prisoner swap in 2011
Within days of the 7 October attacks last year, Israeli investigators identified Yahya Sinwar, then the military leader of Hamas in Gaza, as the mastermind of the surprise attack on Israel.
To their increasing astonishment, they learned that Sinwar had not just conceived of what he had called “Operation al-Aqsa Flood”, but that he had planned and organised the assault almost alone. Only a handful of close aides had been let in on the plans, some with only days to go before the attack, which led to the killings of about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, the abduction of more than 250, and triggered an Israeli offensive that has so far killed more than 42,000 and laid waste to swathes of Gaza.
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