Netanyahu: Hamas leader Mohammed Sinwar is probably killed

May 21 (Upi) – Hamas leader Mohammed Sinwar was probably killed by Israeli defense forces last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told reporters on Wednesday.

“We removed tens of thousands of terrorists,” said Netanyahu during a press conference on Wednesday evening.

“We removed the leaders of the murderers of Deif, Haniyeh, Yahya Sinwar,” Netanyahu added, “and it seems that we also removed Mohammed Sinwar.”

Mohammed Sinwar is the brother of the former Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, whom the IDF drove and killed in southern Gaza on October 16 during a training mission.

Mohammed Sinwar probably died on May 14th when he lived in the European Hospital in Khan Younis, CNN reported.

The Ascharq al-A-AAT, based in London and in Saudi, quoted two sources in which the Mohammed Sinwar family was informed about his death two days ago, said Jerusalem Post.

His likely death makes him the second Sinwar, who led Hamas and the third of the family because the war started when the proven foreign terrorist organization attacked and killed around 1,200 Israeli civilians on October 7, 2023.

Israel is ready to take full control over the Gaza Strip, Netanyahu said during the press conference on Wednesday evening.

“Our armed forces are taking more and more territory in Gaza,” said Netanyahu. “At the end of the move, all areas of the strip are under Israeli security control.”

He said Israel was ready to end the war when the return of all remaining hostages in Gaza.

The termination of hostility would also require that Hamas would disarm her leadership and fall while the plan is implemented by President Donald Trump in Gaza, said Netanyahu.

“Anyone who calls us to stop the war before these goals will ask us to leave Hamas in power,” he told reporters.

Netanyahu spoke to the media when the IDF continued its Gideon process to remove Hamas in Gaza.

“The IDF hit more than 115 terrorist goals all over Gaza from the ground, sea and air,” said the IDF on Wednesday in one post on X.

“The goals included launchers, military structures, tunnels, terrorist cells and additional locations for terrorist infrastructure.”