Israeli Forces Discover Body of Hamas Leader Under Gaza Hospital

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Israel's army on Sunday (June 8) gave a small group of foreign reporters a tour of a tunnel beneath the European Hospital in Khan Younis from which it said its forces had retrieved the body of Hamas' Gaza chief Mohammed Sinwar. READ MORE: https://www.thetimes.com/world/middle-east/israel-hamas-war/article/israel-recovers-body-of-hamas-leader-muhammad-sinwar-fv3nr95r9 IDF spokesperson Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin said the tunnel had served as a major command-and-control compound for Hamas and that the tunnel was targeted by Israeli forces in an operation last month. Another senior Hamas leader, Mohammad Shabana, commander of the Rafah Brigade, was also found dead at the scene along with a number of other militants, who are still being identified, Defrin said. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Sinwar's death last month, but Defrin said they now had his DNA which proved beyond doubt it was him. Hamas has not commented on reports of the death of either Sinwar or Shabana. Read the best of our journalism: https://www.thetimes.com/ Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=timesonlinevideo Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/timesandsundaytimes/ Find us on X: https://x.com/thetimes Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetimes/ #israel #gaza