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After Muhammad Sinwar’s death confirmed, Katz warns remaining Hamas leaders: You are next
Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
After the military confirmed the death of Hamas leader Muhammad Sinwar in an airstrike several weeks ago, Defense Minister Israel Katz warns the remaining leaders of the terror group in Gaza and abroad that they are next.
“Now it is official: The murderer Muhammad Sinwar has been eliminated with the Rafah Brigade commander Muhammad Shabana and the wicked gang who were with them under the European Hospital in Gaza, and he was sent to meet his brother at the gates of hell,” Katz says in a statement
“Izz al-Din Haddad in Gaza and Khalil al-Hayya abroad, and all their partners in crime, you are next in line,” he adds.
Haddad is Hamas’s Gaza City commander — the de facto most senior official in the Strip — and al-Hayya is a member of Hamas’s leadership council abroad.
The Times of Israel Community.