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Muhammad Sinwar

The new spokesman for Hamas's military wing, known like his predecessor by the alias Abu Obeida, gives his first video statement on December 29, 2025. (Screenshot)
December 29, 2025, 6:20 pm
Hamas admits former spokesman killed in August, debuts new ‘Abu Obeida’
Terror group also confirms death of Muhammad Sinwar for the first time, seven months after the commander was killed in an Israeli airstrike under a southern Gaza hospital
By Noam Lehmann and Agencies
A group of former senior Hamas officials, including (seated from left) Muhammad Sinwar, Muhammad Deif, Yahya Sinwar and Ismail Haniyeh, all of whom have since been killed by Israel, are seen in a propaganda video released by Hamas on August 30, 2025. (Screenshot: X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
October 11, 2025, 9:20 pm
Burn towns, slaughter, broadcast: 2022 Sinwar memo said to detail Hamas plan for Oct. 7
‘Kill everyone you encounter’: Recovered this year in an IDF raid on a tunnel used by Sinwar’s brother, the document mirrors intercepted Hamas field orders sent that day, NYT reports
By ToI Staff
Mourners react as a trailer carrying the coffins containing the bodies of Hezbollah's former leader Hassan Nasrallah and his cousin and successor Hashem Safieddine drives through the crowd at the beginning of a funeral procession in the Sports City Stadium in Beirut, Lebanon, February 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
September 10, 2025, 10:32 am
Who were the terror leaders killed by Israel since Oct. 7, prior to the Doha strike?
From Hamas mastermind Yahya Sinwar to Hezbollah leader Nasrallah, Israel wiped out the top ranks of Iranian proxies across Mideast, plus generals from the Islamic Republic itself
By Agencies and ToI Staff
A group of former senior Hamas officials, including (seated from left) Muhammad Sinwar, Muhammad Deif, Yahya Sinwar and Ismail Haniyeh, all of whom have since been killed by Israel, are seen in a propaganda video released by Hamas on August 30, 2025. (Screenshot: X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 31, 2025, 10:31 am
Months after IDF strike, Hamas casually confirms leader Mohammed Sinwar’s death
Terror group does not issue statement, but includes the younger Sinwar in footage published of slain leaders, listing them as ‘martyrs;’ IDF said it killed him in May
By ToI Staff and Reuters
A screenshot of video released by the IDF on October 19, 2024, shows Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar's wife, Samar Muhammad Abu Zamar, holding a handbag, escaping into a tunnel with him and their children on the night before the Gaza-ruling terror group's October 7, 2023, onslaught against Israel. (Screen capture; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
July 23, 2025, 4:06 pm
Yahya Sinwar’s widow fled Gaza using fake passport to Turkey and remarried — report
Gazan source claims Samar Muhammad Abu Zamar paid thousands to exit through Rafah crossing, then moved to Turkey with her children and started a new life
By ToI Staff
Hamas Gaza chief Izz al-Din al-Haddad, then the commander of the terror group's Gaza City Brigade, is seen in a video released by Hamas’s military wing in May 2022 (social media)
June 12, 2025, 5:06 pm
Hamas’s new Gaza leader: A Hebrew-speaking ‘ghost’ with a $750,000 price on his head
With Israel having eliminated his predecessors the Sinwar brothers, Izz al-Din Haddad now heads terror group in Strip where he is said to carry photos of hostages in his phone
By ToI Staff
An officer in the IDF Golani Brigade's reconnaissance company in the tunnel under a Khan Younis hospital in which Hamas military leader Mohammed Sinwar was killed, June 8, 2025. (Lazar Berman/The Times of Israel)
June 9, 2025, 4:14 am
Here, beneath an EU-funded Gaza hospital, Hamas military chief Mohammed Sinwar met his end
As the IDF confirms top terrorist was killed in May strike, reporters are taken to the tunnel under Khan Younis’s European Hospital where it says Hamas ran a command center, held hostages
By Lazar Berman and Emanuel Fabian
A screenshot of an undated video released by the Israel Defense Forces on December 17, 2023, shows Hamas commander Muhammad Sinwar, right, riding in a car traveling through a tunnel under the Gaza Strip. (Screenshot: Israel Defense Forces)
June 7, 2025, 8:21 pm
IDF believes it found body of Hamas leader Muhammad Sinwar in tunnel under Gaza hospital
Sinwar was killed in May strike; Hamas warns army operating in area where hostage Matan Zangauker held; 12 reported killed in Khan Younis tent camp, 6 killed near aid site
By Emanuel Fabian, Jacob Magid and Agencies
Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli army airstrike on the European hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, May 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Mariam Dagga)
May 31, 2025, 11:48 pm
Following Netanyahu, IDF confirms Hamas leader Muhammad Sinwar killed in May 13 strike
Fighter jets dropped 50 bombs in 30 seconds on tunnel system under European Hospital, killing group’s top official in Gaza, other commanders; Katz warns the rest: ‘You are next’
By Emanuel Fabian
A screenshot of an undated video released by the Israel Defense Forces on December 17, 2023, shows Hamas commander Muhammad Sinwar, right, riding in a car traveling through a tunnel under the Gaza Strip. (Screenshot: Israel Defense Forces)
May 28, 2025, 8:48 pm
Netanyahu tells Knesset Muhammad Sinwar killed; IDF has yet to confirm
In parliament debate, PM says Hamas Gaza leader was ‘eliminated’ in recent strike that targeted him, though military and terror group have yet to officially say he died
By ToI Staff and Reuters
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks in the Knesset on May 28, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 28, 2025, 8:48 pm
PM claims ‘tremendous achievements’ in Gaza war that have ‘changed face of Middle East’
In defiant speech to Knesset, Netanyahu says accomplishments wouldn’t have been made if government had listened to opposition; Lapid blames him for Oct. 7, ‘nadir’ in US relations
By Jeremy Sharon
People check a bus inside a crater in the aftermath of an Israeli strike outside the European Hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on May 14, 2025 (Eyad BABA / AFP)
May 24, 2025, 12:44 am
Israel targeted Muhammad Sinwar in rare moment when he had no hostages around him — report
TV report says Hamas chief made mistake of meeting with top commanders without his usual protective ‘hostage belt’; when Israel was sure no captives were present, it bombed
By ToI Staff
Israeli troops work on their armored vehicles at a position by the border with the Gaza Strip on May 18, 2025. (Photo by Menahem KAHANA / AFP)
May 18, 2025, 5:10 pm
IDF says it has begun ‘broad’ ground operations as it expands new Gaza offensive
Over 100 Palestinians said killed; hospitals in north of Strip close amid fighting; Sunday Times says Israeli plan is to shift Gazans into 3 separate, discrete areas
By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff
A screenshot of an undated video released by the Israel Defense Forces on December 17, 2023, shows Hamas commander Muhammad Sinwar, right, riding in a car traveling through a tunnel under the Gaza Strip. (Screenshot: Israel Defense Forces)
May 18, 2025, 1:30 pm
Hamas leader Muhammad Sinwar’s body said found in Gaza tunnel hit by IDF last week
Defense minister says ‘there’s no official confirmation, but according to all the indications’ he died; report says third Sinwar brother Zakaria killed Saturday
By Nurit Yohanan, ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian
Displaced Palestinians flee Beit Lahiya amid ongoing military operations in the Gaza Strip arrive in Jabalia, northern Gaza, May 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
May 16, 2025, 1:56 pm
Dozens said killed in heavy Israeli strikes across Gaza; Trump: ‘People are starving’
IDF says it hit over 150 ‘terror targets’; reports of Israeli tanks advancing ahead of expected major offensive after US president leaves region; Trump: ‘Lot of bad things going on’ in Gaza
By Agencies, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
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