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Mohammad Sinwar
NameMohammad Sinwar
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Personal Details
Birth Place
Khan Yunis
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Death Place
Khan Yunis
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ReligionIslam

Mohammad Ibrahim Hassan al-Sinwar, known by the kunya Abu Ibrahim, is the brother of Yahya Sinwar and is considered one of the most prominent senior military commanders of the Al-Qassam Brigades. He is a member of the military staff council of the brigades and the commander of the Khan Yunis brigade. Israel has placed him at the top of its targeted killing list, as it considers him the architect of a large group of Palestinian offensive operations against Israel. Mohammad Sinwar is one of the architects of the "Shalit deal" or the "Wafa al-Ahrar deal". Israel also considers Mohammad Sinwar more important than his brother Yahya Sinwar and calls him "Shadow Man" or "Living Dead".

Following the death of Mohammed Deif, the senior military commander of Hamas in July 2024 (Tir 1403 SH), Mohammad Sinwar took responsibility for the military wing of Hamas. Also, after his older brother Yahya Sinwar was killed by Israeli army forces, he became the leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Mohammad Sinwar was killed in Israeli attacks near the European Hospital in eastern Khan Yunis in May 2024 (Ordibehesht 1403 SH). [citation needed]


Overview

Mohammad al-Sinwar was born in September 1975 in the city of Khan Yunis in the south of the Gaza Strip, where his family took refuge in this city from their main city, Majdal Asqalan, in 1948. This had a significant impact on his life and the formation of his intellectual and political life and the reason for his joining the ranks of the Hamas movement and its military wing. Al-Sinwar was appointed commander of the Khan Yunis brigade in 2005 CE, at which time he was one of the prominent members of the general staff of the army, which was considered the command center of the armed wing of Hamas, and this caused him to get close to Mohammed Deif and his deputy Marwan Issa.

Mohammad al-Sinwar is one of the most prominent figures who have been placed on Israel's targeted killing list. What led him to a very secretive life, while many residents of the Gaza Strip do not know his characteristics, and he also survived 6 Israeli attempts to assassinate him.

Israel considers Mohammad Sinwar the mastermind of a large number of attacks, especially the operation that led to the capture of soldier Gilad Shalit in 2006 CE, after targeting a military site on the eastern border of Rafah city, which led to the completion of the operation. The prisoner exchange deal between Hamas and Israel and the release of his brother Yahya Sinwar. Israel also considers Mohammad Sinwar more important than his brother Yahya Sinwar and calls him "Shadow Man" or "Living Dead".


Birth

Mohammad Ibrahim Hassan al-Sinwar was born on 16 September 1975 CE in a refugee camp in the city of Khan Yunis in the south of the Gaza Strip. His family took refuge in Khan Yunis after migrating from their main city, "Majdal Asqalan" in occupied Palestine, on Nakba Day in 1948.


Education

He completed his primary education in schools affiliated with the Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees United Nations (UNRWA). At a young age, under the influence of his older brother, Yahya Sinwar, a prominent leader of Hamas and head of its political office in Gaza, he was one of the pioneers of mosques and among the first generations to join the ranks of this movement on 14 December 1987 CE.


Activities

From the early days, he showed a leadership personality and was one of the Hamas activists in resisting the Israeli occupation during the Great Intifada of 1987-1993 CE. He climbed the organizational ranks and was among the first to join the military wing of Hamas, the "Martyr Izz ad-Din al-Qassam" Brigades, and in 2005 CE he took on the position of commander of "Khan Yunis".


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Mohammad Sinwar
NameMuhammad Sinwar
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Personal Details
Birth PlaceKhan Yunis, Gaza Strip
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Muhammad Sinwar is a Palestinian militant commander associated with Hamas and the Al-Qassam Brigades. He is known for his elusive lifestyle and surviving multiple assassination attempts by Israeli forces.

Military Activities

Muhammad Sinwar leads an extraordinary life and is so secretive that the majority of residents of the Gaza Strip hardly know his characteristics. He moves anonymously and within a specific limit and neighbourhood, due to not being exposed to Israeli assassination, as over the past two decades, he has survived from 6 operations that were planned to assassinate him.

His last assassination attempt was during the Fourth Gaza War, which Israel called "Guardian of the Walls" and the Resistance called the "Battle of the Sword of Jerusalem", and lasted for 11 days in May 2021 CE.

On 11 April 2003, the Al-Qassam Brigades said in a military statement that Muhammad Sinwar survived an assassination attempt using a mine that was placed by occupying agents on the wall of his house in Khan Yunis city, but the alertness of the Al-Qassam fighters neutralised this attempt.

Occupying forces also destroyed his family's house on 24 October 2004. Following the assassination attempt in 2003, he disappeared from sight and did not even attend his father's funeral, who died at the age of 90 on 12 January [year needed].

He appeared only in a rare recording broadcast by the Al-Qassam Brigades after the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza on 15 August 2005, and continued for 8 days until the evacuation of all settlements scattered along the coastal strip was completed.

After that, Muhammad Sinwar disappeared again until he appeared on the programme "What is Hidden is Greater", which was broadcast on Al Jazeera network on the evening of Friday, 27 May 2022.

He experienced detention in occupation prisons due to his activity in Hamas during the Great Intifada, and was arrested by the "national authorities" of Palestine as part of political arrest campaigns that targeted Hamas leaders and members in the 1990s. Following the outbreak of the Al-Aqsa Intifada on 28 September 2000, it decreased significantly. A few months after the outbreak of the Al-Aqsa Intifada, Muhammad Sinwar - along with others who managed to escape from Ramallah prisons - participated in the reconstruction and organisation of the Al-Qassam Brigades, which were disbanded and disappeared in the years 1996-2000. This was due to political arrest campaigns and security pursuit by the authorities.

Israel accuses Muhammad Sinwar of being the "main manager" of many guerrilla operations, especially the so-called "Bomb Tunnel Operation", which targeted Israeli military bases over 5 years, after the outbreak of the Al-Aqsa Intifada.

Sinwar's name was raised as one of the designers of the "Broken Illusion" operation, which targeted an Israeli military site near the Kerem Shalom crossing (Kerem Shalom) in the east of Rafah city in the south of the Gaza Strip in June [year needed].

The Resistance managed to arrest soldier Gilad Shalit and he was detained years before his release as part of the prisoner exchange deal that the Al-Qassam Brigades called "Faithful Free Men", which was carried out under the auspices of Egypt on 18 October 2011.

According to this contract, Israel was forced to release 1027 Palestinian male and female prisoners in two stages, the most prominent of whom was his brother Yahya Sinwar, who had been in detention since 1988 and was serving a 451-year prison sentence. Private Security Service in Hamas, which was known as "Majd" at the time and specialised in pursuing Israeli agents in Gaza. Muhammad Sinwar believes that the solution to the release of about 5000 Palestinian prisoners in occupation prisons lies in prisoner exchange deals; in his last appearance on Al Jazeera network, he revealed the efforts of the Al-Qassam Brigades during the "Battle of the Sword of Jerusalem".

Public Appearance

Muhammad Sinwar appeared only in a rare recording broadcast by the armed branch of Hamas after the withdrawal of Israel from Gaza in 2005, and his second appearance was in 2022 after the military confrontation between Hamas and Israel in May 2021. Before Israel broadcast a video of him driving a car into a tunnel, the Israeli army said that it had recorded this clip during a raid on the Hamas headquarters in Gaza.

Assassination Attempts

In April 2003, the Al-Qassam Brigades revealed that occupying agents had installed a suspicious bomb (a concrete pillar armed with a length of one metre and width of 15 centimetres) on one of the walls opposite his house. "Occupying agents" had placed 10 CCTV cameras inside a suspicious package and had considered all directions of Muhammad Sinwar's house. When the Israeli regime became aware of the discovery of its plan, the occupying aircraft, which were on standby, immediately left from the east of Khan Yunis city in the south of the Gaza Strip and eventually fired a missile at the suspicious package and exploded it.

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Death

Mohammed Sinwar, commander of the Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, was martyred in Israeli attacks near the European Hospital in eastern Khan Yunis in May 2024 (CE).

The body of the martyr Mohammed Sinwar, along with 10 of his deputies, was found inside a tunnel in Khan Yunis, and Mohammed Shabaneh, commander of the Rafah Brigade, was also martyred in Khan Yunis.

Following the martyrdom of Mohammed Deif, senior military commander of Hamas, in July 2024 (CE), Mohammed Sinwar assumed responsibility for the military wing of Hamas. Also, after Yahya Sinwar, his older brother, was martyred by Israeli army forces, he became the leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

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