The IDF on Saturday released footage showing Hamas leader Yahya Shinuar the night before the October 7 attack taking refuge in a tunnel with his family while carrying equipment. According to the IDF, the video was recovered from Gaza several months ago. Also, a new video of the moment of his extermination last Wednesday was published.

“Even on the eve of the brutal massacre, Sinuar was preoccupied with his survival and the survival of his family,” IDF spokesman Vice Admiral Daniel Hagari told a news conference.

“A few hours before the massacre, Sinuar and his family escaped alone into the tunnel … they equipped themselves with food, water, pillows, a television and other supplies for a long stay,” he continued.

“Hours before the massacre, Sinuar only cared about himself and his family while sending terrorists for the brutal attack,” Hagari added.

In the video of the moment he is killed, a figure can be seen in a building in Rafah, which the Israeli military says is the leader of Hamas, and then the building is bombed.

The Israeli military also released photos of the tunnel where Sinwar had taken refuge in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. In the hideout of the once-powerful leader of Hamas, a half-lit tunnel, books, clothes, spread out clothes, and a revolutionary flag of Islamic organizations can be seen, among other things.

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What the autopsy showed on the body of the Hamas leader

The Hamas leader was killed by a bullet wound to the head, the New York Times reported, citing the medical examiner who headed the autopsy in Israel.

Sinwar was found seriously injured in a random Israeli operation on Wednesday in the Tell al-Sultan area of ​​Rafah by a drone inside a damaged building. Then, after his death, in order to identify him, the Israeli authorities proceeded with a DNA test after first cutting off the finger from the body.

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The leader of the Palestinian militant group was initially wounded in the right forearm during an exchange of fire with Israeli soldiers, director of the Israel Institute of Medical Forensics Chen Kugel, who oversaw the autopsy and released his findings to the newspaper, told the New York Times.

After his injury, the Hamas leader wrapped an electric wire around his arm, “but that wouldn’t have been enough anyway (…) It wasn’t stable enough and his forearm had disintegrated,” the coroner told the NYT.

Wounded, Sinuar was later killed by a bullet to the head, according to Dr. Kugel.

Unknown who gave Sinuar the free kick

But many dark spots remain, according to the American newspaper, especially regarding her exact moment of the fatal shooting, the weapon which was also used who shot.

According to Israeli military spokesman Daniel Haggari, Israeli forces have been operating “in recent weeks” inside the Tel al-Sultan neighborhood of Rafah, following information about the possible presence there of high-ranking Hamas officials.

“Yahia Sinuar was hiding in areas we had already inspected,” but “we didn’t know he was there,” according to Rear Admiral Hagari.

On Wednesday, soldiers spotted “three terrorists who were moving from house to house” and there was an exchange of fire.

“Sinuar then rushed alone into a building” and “was wounded in one arm by gunfire,” according to Hagari.

The Israeli military said the Hamas leader had a pistol and 40,000 shekels (about $10,000) on him.