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Palestinian reports: Brother of Yahya and Muhammad Sinwar killed in Gaza airstrike

By Nurit Yohanan 18 May 2025, 11:50 am Edit

Nurit Yohanan is The Times of Israel's Palestinian and Arab world correspondent

Media outlets in Gaza report that Zakaria Sinwar, the brother of former Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and of de facto Hamas leader in Gaza Muhammad Sinwar, was killed last night in an airstrike in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip.

According to the reports, he was killed along with three of his children in a strike on the tent where they were residing.

Sinwar had worked as a lecturer at the Islamic University in Gaza.

The reports come shortly after a Saudi outlet said that Muhammad Sinwar’s body has been found in a Khan Yonis tunnel targeted by Israeli airstrikes last week.

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