Hamas website cautions to wait for more info on Yahya Sinwar

Al-Majd, a Hamas-linked website that usually publishes about security issues, urged Palestinians to wait for information about Yahya Sinwar from the group itself and not Israeli media outlets, which, it said, aimed to break their spirit.

Earlier,  the Israeli military said on Thursday that it is checking the possibility that it has killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.

During IDF operations in Gaza, three Hamas fighters were killed, the IDF said in a statement.

The Israel Defense Forces said it was examining the possibility that Sinwar was one of three fightes it killed “during IDF operations in Gaza”.

Sinwar has led Hamas within Gaza since 2017, having joined its ranks in the early 1980s.

It come as photographs have been circulating on social media today which claim to show Sinwar's dead body.

The images have not been independently verified.

Earlier in August, Hamas named Sinwar, one of the architects of the October 7 terror attack on Israel, as its new leader after Ismail Haniyeh’s assassination.