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One by One: The Dead Men Who Walked

Yahya Sinwar – The chief architect of the October 7 attacks. Eliminated in Rafah by Israeli forces in late 2024. His death, though not immediately confirmed, was later acknowledged as a major turning point in the Gaza campaign.

– The chief architect of the October 7 attacks. Eliminated in Rafah by Israeli forces in late 2024. His death, though not immediately confirmed, was later acknowledged as a major turning point in the Gaza campaign. Mohammed Sinwar – Yahya’s younger brother and interim Hamas Gaza commander, killed in a May 2025 airstrike on a tunnel complex beneath the European Hospital in Khan Younis.

– Yahya’s younger brother and interim Hamas Gaza commander, killed in a May 2025 airstrike on a tunnel complex beneath the European Hospital in Khan Younis. Mohammed Deif – The elusive, wheelchair-bound military head of Hamas’s Qassam Brigades. Killed in Khan Younis in July 2024 after decades of surviving Israeli assassination attempts. His death was described by Israeli officials as a “strategic milestone.”

– The elusive, wheelchair-bound military head of Hamas’s Qassam Brigades. Killed in Khan Younis in July 2024 after decades of surviving Israeli assassination attempts. His death was described by Israeli officials as a “strategic milestone.” Ismail Haniyeh – The political head of Hamas, assassinated in Tehran on July 31, 2024, during Iran’s presidential inauguration. A guided projectile struck his residence, killing him and his bodyguards. Iran was left red-faced; Hamas was left rudderless abroad.

– The political head of Hamas, assassinated in Tehran on July 31, 2024, during Iran’s presidential inauguration. A guided projectile struck his residence, killing him and his bodyguards. Iran was left red-faced; Hamas was left rudderless abroad. Fuad Shukr – Hezbollah’s seniormost military strategist and weapons procurement expert, eliminated in a Beirut strike days after a rocket attack from Lebanon killed 12 Israeli children.

– Hezbollah’s seniormost military strategist and weapons procurement expert, eliminated in a Beirut strike days after a rocket attack from Lebanon killed 12 Israeli children. Saleh al-Arouri – A senior Hamas political leader based in Lebanon, targeted and killed in a drone strike on a Hamas office in Beirut.

– A senior Hamas political leader based in Lebanon, targeted and killed in a drone strike on a Hamas office in Beirut. Marwan Issa – Deif’s deputy and key tunnel warfare commander, killed in an Israeli airstrike on a central Gaza tunnel complex.

– Deif’s deputy and key tunnel warfare commander, killed in an Israeli airstrike on a central Gaza tunnel complex. Razi Mousavi – Senior Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) official, killed in an Israeli strike on his Damascus residence.

– Senior Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) official, killed in an Israeli strike on his Damascus residence. Mohammad Reza Zahedi – IRGC Quds Force commander in Lebanon and Syria, killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus.

– IRGC Quds Force commander in Lebanon and Syria, killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus. Ibrahim Biari – Hamas commander in Jabalia, killed in an airstrike that flattened a Hamas tunnel system but also caused heavy civilian casualties.

A War Fought on Netanyahu’s Terms

Biden Was President, Then Trump Returned. Netanyahu Waited for Neither.

The Doctrine of Wrath, Updated

What Remains

“If you let my daughter go now, that’ll be the end of it… But if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.” Liam Neeson said it in Taken. Benjamin Netanyahu turned it into policy.On October 26, 2023 — 19 days after the Hamas-led massacre on Israeli soil left over 1,200 dead and hundreds taken hostage — Israel’s Prime Minister declared, “All Hamas members are dead men walking — above and below ground, inside and outside Gaza. ” It sounded like war rhetoric. It turned out to be a declaration of intent. Over the next 18 months, that promise morphed into one of the most relentless, far-reaching, and unapologetic assassination campaigns ever carried out by a democratic state.This was not merely a campaign of retribution. It was a strategic decapitation effort — targeting not just the foot soldiers of Hamas, but its political leadership, military command, and regional support infrastructure across multiple countries.Other unnamed aides and brigade leaders – Including Mohammed Shabanah, Hamas’s Rafah Brigade commander, believed to have died alongside Mohammed Sinwar.This list is not incidental. It is the product of a doctrine — one that Netanyahu articulated in late 2023 and has enforced ever since, with increasing boldness, geographical reach, and political defiance.In Gaza, Israel’s campaign was brutal, with tunnel networks systematically targeted, senior commanders hunted down, and drone intelligence deployed to track movements in real time.But the strategy did not end at Gaza’s borders.Tehran, Beirut, Damascus — all became theatres of Israeli action. Iran’s support for Hamas and Hezbollah no longer offered its proxies safe haven. Israeli strikes now carry messages: we know where you are, and we no longer care where you are.From a hospital tunnel to a diplomatic residence, Netanyahu’s campaign has made it clear — there are no sanctuaries anymore.In the early months of the war, Joe Biden was still president. His administration, despite vocal support for Israel in the immediate aftermath of October 7, grew increasingly cautious as civilian casualties mounted. It paused weapons shipments, urged restraint in Rafah, and sought a diplomatic off-ramp.Netanyahu did not listen.Israeli strikes continued — some timed conspicuously during US-led ceasefire negotiations. The Tehran hit on Haniyeh occurred just as Washington was trying to open backchannels with Iran. The Beirut operation against Fuad Shukr took place even as the US was attempting to contain Hezbollah. Netanyahu’s message was clear: Israel’s security calculus would not be subcontracted to Washington’s diplomatic calendar.Then came November 2024. Donald Trump returned to the White House.With Trump back in office, the temperature in Washington changed — but not the trajectory in Jerusalem. Netanyahu did not pivot. He accelerated.While Trump publicly cheered Israeli strength and made little effort to restrain Netanyahu’s military moves, Israeli operations remained distinctly independent. The assassination of Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran — timed for maximum humiliation of the Iranian regime — reportedly took even the Trump administration by surprise. This was no alliance at work. This was Israel acting unilaterally under the cover of indifference from an ideologically aligned US president.This is not Israel’s first campaign of targeted assassinations. After the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, Mossad launched Operation Wrath of God — a covert operation to hunt down the perpetrators across Europe. But Netanyahu’s war is different.This is Wrath of Government.No longer covert, no longer apologetic, no longer concerned with diplomatic decorum. This is a state acting with sovereign clarity — to destroy not just Hamas’s capacity for terror, but its mythology of resistance.No martyrdom. No survival stories. Just the elimination of command structures, political leadership, and ideological symbols.The war is no longer about territory. It is about memory and deterrence. A simple message: those responsible for October 7 will not live to tell the tale.Inside Gaza, Hamas is decapitated. Its political coherence is shattered, its military wing disoriented. Whatever leadership remains now operates in fragments, dispersed between tunnels, safehouses, and uncertainty. Its capacity to govern has evaporated, and its ability to command a coordinated military response is broken.In Lebanon, Hezbollah is already engaged in sustained cross-border conflict with Israel. Since the days following October 7, Hezbollah has launched repeated rocket and drone attacks into northern Israel, prompting Israeli airstrikes and artillery fire in return. While this ongoing exchange has led to the deaths of dozens of fighters and civilians on both sides — and displaced tens of thousands — it has not yet escalated into the kind of full-scale war seen in 2006.But the nature of Israel’s targeted assassinations, including the killing of senior Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut, suggests that the same doctrine applied in Gaza now extends to Lebanon as well. Hezbollah may continue its calibrated attacks, but it does so knowing that retaliation could invite direct, devastating escalation — and that even its senior leadership is no longer untouchable.In Iran, the embarrassment lingers. Israeli strikes have pierced not only Iranian territory but the illusion of security long maintained by its proxy architecture. Tehran has watched its most senior commanders die without even the benefit of plausible deniability.And in Washington, the split endures. Even under Trump, who praises Israel’s strength, the sheer scale and independence of the Israeli campaign has made one thing clear: Netanyahu is not operating under American direction. He is operating to fulfill a promise made to his people.A promise that all those responsible for October 7 would die — no matter where they were, no matter who shielded them, no matter how long it took.Netanyahu’s vow — that all Hamas members were “dead men walking” — no longer sounds like rhetoric from a shaken nation. It sounds like a doctrine. And from Khan Younis to Tehran, from Beirut to Damascus, the results are visible.The world may debate the morality. It may question the proportionality. But the strategy is no longer in doubt.Those who planned October 7 are not fleeing. They are falling. One name at a time.

Israel’s defence forces have revealed the moment the body of de facto Hamas chief Mohammad Sinwar was pulled from tunnels beneath a hospital in Khan Yunis some four weeks after the facility was battered with air strikes.

The IDF said it had confirmed the death of Sinwar – brother of former Hamas leader in Gaza and October 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar – on Sunday with a DNA test. The military also shared his alleged documentation and driver’s license.

His rotting corpse was discovered lying on a filthy mattress in one of several small annexes connected by a web of tunnels under the EU-funded European Hospital.

He is presumed to have died from asphyxiation after bombs collapsed part of the tunnel network and sucked the air from the underground hideouts.

Israeli soldiers wearing body cameras explored the dank man-made cave system littered with weapons, debris and dead Hamas fighters before locating the slain terror chief.

His body was subsequently stuffed into a white body bag, attached to a small stretcher and hoisted out of a huge crater next to the hospital in stark footage shared by the IDF.

Mohammad became the leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip and chief of its armed wing, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, following the assassination of his brother.

Israeli officials declared the strikes that killed Sinwar and other high-ranking Hamas members on May 13 a ‘world-class’ operation and boasted that they had managed to ‘kill a terrorist hiding under a hospital, without hitting the hospital’.

But horrific CCTV footage from May 13 shows the moment Israeli bombs demolished the courtyard just outside the hospital entrance, where dozens of civilians were walking.

The terrified citizens are seen scrambling in a futile attempt to find cover as the bomb approaches before their bodies are torn apart and launched through the air in a fiery explosion.

When the smoke clears the civilians are nowhere to be seen. The road meanwhile begins to crack and crumble as flames erupt from under the ground.

Sinwar’s body was stuffed into a white body bag, attached to a small stretcher and hoisted out of a huge crater next to the hospital in stark footage shared by the IDF

Sinwar’s rotting corpse was discovered lying on a filthy mattress in one of several small annexes connected by a web of tunnels under the EU-funded European Hospital

Horrific CCTV footage from May 13 shows the moment Israeli bombs demolished the courtyard just outside the hospital entrance where dozens of civilians were walking

The terrified citizens are seen scrambling in a futile attempt to find cover as the bomb approaches before their bodies are torn apart and launched through the air in a fiery explosion

The head of Hamas’ military wing, Mohammad Sinwar, has been ‘eliminated’ in a massive air strike in Gaza

The IDF released extensive footage of the Hamas tunnel network under the European Hospital after confirming Sinwar’s death.

In bodycam footage of the find, a soldier enters a deep tunnel outside the medical facility and makes their way down a dim corridor.

They stumble into a room filled with what appears to be guns and ammunition before panning the camera to find Sinwar’s camouflaged body splayed on a small bed on the floor.

The IDF member then proceeds to walk through several other tunnels which lead to dark rooms filled with equipment, guns, radios and other detritus.

Soldiers only entered the tunnel system after the hospital and the surrounding area were secured by members of three teams – the Golani Brigade reconnaissance unit, the Shaldag special forces and the Yahalom combat engineering unit.

Reporters for the Times of Israel who were able to enter the subterranean network said the stench of rotting flesh was inescapable.

An Israeli major involved in the operation to find Sinwar’s body told the Times of Israel: ‘We understood that those bodies were very important from the first footage when we went in. It was very serious people in the organisation.’

‘The terrorists we took out are important,’ he continued, ‘but not as much as the weapons and intelligence that we took out from here.

‘We found a military base under a hospital, period. There’s no other way to say it,’ he said.

An official IDF statement issued in the wake of the finding read: ‘Mohammad Sinwar was responsible for the deaths of countless civilians. He was eliminated in an IDF & ISA strike on May 13.

‘His body was found beneath the European hospital in Khan Yunis – more proof of how Sinwar, and Hamas, hide behind their civilians and purposely embed themselves in civilian areas, such as hospitals.

‘He died the way he lived – underground’.

More than two dozen civilians were reportedly killed in the strikes along with Sinwar and other Hamas commanders.

The IDF on Sunday released footage of the discovery of Mohammad Sinwar’s body in a tunnel beneath a hospital in southern Gaza

The rooms beyond the tunnels were seen packed with weapons and other military equipment

The IDF said: ‘His body was found beneath the European hospital in Khan Yunis – more proof of how Sinwar, and Hamas, hide behind their civilians and purposely embed themselves in civilian areas, such as hospitals’

Sinwar, nicknamed ‘The Shadow’ and ‘The Butcher of Khan Younis’, was targeted in a massive airstrike on the hospital in Khan Yunis on May 13, just a day after Hamas released Israeli-American soldier Edan Alexander

In bodycam footage of the find also posted to X, a soldier enters a deep tunnel outside the medical facility before making their way down a dim corridor

Sinwar, nicknamed ‘The Shadow’ and ‘The Butcher of Khan Yunis’ by Israel, was targeted in the massive airstrikes in Khan Yunis on May 13, just a day after Hamas released Israeli-American soldier Edan Alexander.

At the time, the IDF said it had struck ‘Hamas terrorists in a command-and-control centre’ in underground infrastructure at the hospital.

Two weeks later, officials said they believed Sinwar had been killed in the strike, though said they could not confirm until his body had been recovered.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided to announce his death two weeks ago on the 600th day of the war in Gaza following Hamas’ attacks on October 7, 2023.

‘We changed the face of the Middle East, we pushed the terrorists from our territories, we entered the Gaza Strip with force, we eliminated tens of thousands of terrorists, we eliminated (Mohammad) Deif, (Ismail) Haniyeh, Yahya Sinwar and Mohammad Sinwar,’ he said in a speech at the Knesset, Israel’s parliament.

The attack killed 28 Palestinians and wounded more than 50 others, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said after the strike.

Hamas apparently hid Sinwar’s body in the tunnels beneath the European Hospital to prevent Israel verifying his death and to ensure he could receive a high-profile funeral at a time of the group’s choosing.

But they were forced to abandon his corpse when Israeli units stormed Khan Yunis and surrounded the hospital.

According to Israeli reports, its military took advantage of Sinwar briefly separating himself from some of the hostages who remain in Hamas custody following the atrocities of October 7, 2023.

Sinwar used the hostages as human shields, confident Israel would not target him, but he attended talks with Hamas political leaders on May 13 without them.

Word reached Israeli military commanders, and to the surprise of those involved in the operation, authorisation was granted for air strikes close to the hospital.

At the time, the IDF said it had struck ‘Hamas terrorists in a command-and-control centre’ in underground infrastructure at the hospital

An Israeli soldier guards at a tunnel, where the Israeli army believes to be Hamas leaders underground infrastructure while escorting members of the press near the Gaza European Hospital near Khan Yunis on June 8, 2025 in Khan Yunis, Gaza

Israeli soldiers enter a tunnel beneath the European Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, where the military claims Hamas militants had been operating

Hamas apparently hid Sinwar’s body in a tunnel to prevent Israel verifying his death and to ensure he could receive a high-profile funeral at a time of the group’s choosing

The Hamas-run civil defence said that during the strike six bombs hit the hospital’s inner courtyard and surrounding area, killing 28 people and injuring dozens more

The IDF alleges tunnels under the European Hospital in southern Gaza were used by Hamas as a command center during the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel, masterminded by Yahya Sinwar

Mohammad Sinwar was the brother of former Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar (pictured), who was killed by the IDF in October last year

Pictured: Yahya Sinwar throwing a stick at a drone moments before his death last year

Mohammad Sinwar took over the leadership of Hamas’s military wing last year following the death of his older brother Yahya who was killed in October 2024, a year on from Hamas’ ruthless attacks he had orchestrated.

Remarkable footage recorded by an Israeli drone showed Yahya sitting in an armchair in the devastated remains of a multi-storey building following an air strike.

The terror leader, evidently weary and moving in a laboured fashion, appeared to wave a piece of floorboard in defiance at the reconnaissance drone.

Minutes later an air strike reduced the structure to rubble.

Israeli soldiers subsequently dragged Yahya’s body from the ruins of the building.

His death was considered a key milestone in Israeli’s war on Hamas, given that he played a leading role in planning and commanding the October 7 attacks which killed 1,200 people and resulted in 250 hostages being taken into Gaza.

That atrocity triggered Israel’s retaliatory assault on the Occupied Palestinian Territories which has cost more than 50,000 lives, displaced millions of people and caused a humanitarian catastrophe.

Controversially, Israel has sidelined the major international agencies attempting to deliver sorely needed aid to Gazans and instead set up its own shadowy aid organisation in conjunction with the US.

Israel said the move was necessary to prevent Hamas from intercepting aid meant for Gaza residents.

But Israel’s critics have accused the country of orchestrating the provision of lifesaving supplies effectively to enable ethnic cleansing.