At a Hanukkah candle-lighting ceremony at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, a doctor who is a forensics expert recalls identifying the body of slain Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, after he was killed fighting Israeli troops in Gaza in October.
Dr. Esi Sharon-Sagi, director of the Oral Rehabilitation Graduate Program at the Hebrew University teaching hospital, says she led the team of volunteer dentists who enlisted to help police identify victims following the October 7 attack.
“That was a challenging and emotionally charged mission, with only one identification that resulted in happiness — identifying the body of Sinwar,” she says during the Hanukkah candle-lighting ceremony, according to the Walla news site.
Troops only realized they might have gotten Sinwar a day after he was killed alongside two other Hamas members, while trying to move between buildings in Rafah, collecting DNA and other evidence and sending it back to Israel, where Sharon-Sagi was able to confirm it was the Hamas leader and mastermind of the October 7 onslaught.
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