Secret documents believed to beryllium nan handwritten last “directives” of Hamas leader Yayha Sinwar were uncovered Friday, conscionable complete a week aft nan Oct. 7 mastermind was eliminated by Israeli forces successful a chance encounter.
Sinwar’s alleged instructions, written connected 3 torn pages sometime earlier his death, included his orders regarding nan dozens of Israeli hostages still being held captive by Hamas.
“Take attraction of nan lives of force prisoners and unafraid them, since they are nan bargaining spot successful our hands,” nan 61-year-old violent wrote, according to images of nan documents obtained and published by Palestinian insubstantial Al-Quds.
The missives stated that nan hostages are important to getting Palestinian prisoners released from Israeli custody, nan outlet reported.
Sinwar besides included a database of Hamas’ captives and their whereabouts written nether nan header “Alarqam Trading for Printer Co,” a Dubai-registered printed company, and revealed that immoderate Hamas violent who followed done pinch their “duty” would beryllium rewarded.
The writings besides gave names, ages and genders and whether nan hostages were civilians aliases subject members, arsenic good arsenic calculations that bespeak that Sinwar whitethorn person been trying to find really galore captives were still being held successful each area.
He besides outlined nan names of 11 female captives who had been freed successful nan November cease-fire.
There are 101 Israeli hostages being held by Hamas successful Gaza, pinch astatine slightest 60 thought to still beryllium alive, according to The Telegraph.
Sinwar was killed successful an Israeli airstrike connected Oct. 16, conscionable aft nan one-year day of Hamas’ deadly Oct. 7 attack, which had turned him into nan Israel Defense Forces’ number 1 target.
The violent was taken retired during a regular IDF patrol searching for Hamas tunnels successful Rafah. The troops saw 3 suspicious men moving from location to location successful nan area and engaged pinch them, IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari said.
A drone was sent into 1 of nan buildings to analyse and spotted a man later identified arsenic Sinwar sitting unsocial connected a chair pinch his look covered by a cloth and his limb appeared to beryllium severely wounded.
The drone footage showed Sinwar weakly tossing a portion of wood astatine nan instrumentality successful a pitiful effort to sound it away.
An IDF past launched a ammunition into nan structure, causing it to collapse.
Sinwar’s assemblage was discovered among nan rubble and ID’d by DNA nan pursuing day.
The IDF has not yet commented connected nan terrorist’s purported last orders.