The Israeli army today confirmed that it identified the body of Mohammed Sinuar, Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip, killed on May 13 in an air raid on the Palestinian enclave, where Israel is in war with the Islamist movement.

“Following the identification process, it is now confirmed that Mohammed Sinuar’s corpse was found in the underground tunnel under the European Han Juni Hospital,” in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, the army said in a statement.

“Sinuar was exterminated with Rafa Brigade Commander Mohammed Sampaneh during a business on May 13, 2025, while hiding in an underground center of administration and control,” he added.

“During the investigations conducted in the underground tunnel, several objects belonging to Sinuar were found, as well as” other bodies of terrorists “for which the identification process has begun, according to the announcement.

Army spokesman, Brigadier Efi Defrin, told reporters in whom the army allowed the site to visit the Sinuar corpse “under the hospital, just below the Emergency Room”.

It was confirmed by the “DNA test and other exams” that the corpse actually belongs to Mohammed Sinuar, he said.

His death was announced on May 28 by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

His brother, Yama Sinuar, the former Hamas leader, described as the main architect of Hamas’ bloody attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, who triggered the war, was killed in Gaza in Gaza in October 20.

Hamas’ enigmatic face in Gaza, Mohammed Sinuar was considered one of Hamas’s last senior leaders who was still active in the Gaza Strip.

According to experts in the Islamist movement, Mohammed Sinuar temporarily commanded Hamas’s armed wing, al -Casham brigades, which are considered, as well as their respective political part, a terrorist organization by the United States and the European Union in particular.