Report: Unnamed officials believe recent messages attributed to Sinwar were written by someone else

Unnamed intelligence officials tell Army Radio they believe that recent messages attributed to Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar were written by someone other than the terror leader.

In recent weeks Sinwar was said to have sent congratulatory messages to Algeria’s incumbent President Abdelmadjid Tebboune after he was declared the winner of an election, and to the Houthis after a missile attack on Israel.

The Army Radio report says that some believe that Sinwar did not write the messages and that they were instead written by another official in Sinwar’s name.

The report comes after Hebrew-language media outlets said yesterday that Sinwar has been incommunicado for a relatively long time, and Israel is investigating the possibility — currently unlikely speculation not backed by any hard evidence — that he is dead.