TERROR chief Yahya Sinwar was likely wiped out by a long-range gunshot to the head, an autopsy has revealed.
Shocking footage shows evil Hamas boss Sinwar pathetically attempt to fight off a drone with a stick in a fittingly inglorious end for the October 7 mastermind.
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Pictures show Israeli troops gathered around the body believed to be Sinwar
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The humiliating defeat on Wednesday came after he was hunted by Israel for almost 400 days after he ordered the slaughter and kidnap of more than 1,200 civilians.
An autopsy findings reveal Sinwar was likely killed by a long-range gunshot wound to the head – executed with sniper-like precision.
His corpse was also riddled with shrapnel fragments after the house he was in was blasted by a tank.
Sinwar’s body has now been transferred to a secret location inside Israel, Hebrew news site Walla reports.
The cowardly terror kingpin is believed to have spent much of his time in Hamas’ sprawling underground network since October 7, trying to avoid elimination.
But yesterday Sinwar, 62, was killed by Israeli troops after they unwittingly stumbled across him.
Drone video released by Israeli forces shows the mini-camera bot sweep into a bombed-out building.
It comes across a dust-covered man with his face wrapped in a bandana – later revealed to be Sinwar.
He can be seen slumped in a dirty armchair with a badly injured hand.
In one of his feeble final acts, he tries to hurl a stick at the drone to fight it off.
Jubilant Israeli troops didn’t realise they had taken out Sinwar until after he was killed.
Today, Hamas’ senior leader Khalil al-Hayya confirmed Sinwar’s death.
He and his terror guards are understood to have been spotted by a patrol of Israeli troops in Tal al-Sultan, an area of Rafah.
They engaged in a gunfight before IDF troops called in strikes from tanks and missiles.
A drone was then deployed by the patrol unit – stumbling across a terrorist hiding inside the building.
Troops then entered the building and killed the masked fighter as he tried to escape – only then to realise it was Sinwar, dubbed Gaza’s bin Laden.
Gruesome images shared online appeared to show his corpse with a huge head and leg wound.
His identity was confirmed last night after Israel ran DNA tests.
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and top army officials repeatedly vowed to take out Sinwar after he orchestrated last year’s atrocity on October 7.
Inside the twisted life of Yahya Sinwar
By Nick Parker, Foreign Editor
HIS life was saved twice by Israel – but the monster dubbed “The Hamas Bin Laden” repaid his sworn enemy by masterminding the October 7 horror.
Yahya Sinwar, 61, spent 22 years in an Israeli prison for terrorist murder and kidnap plots and spent every second honing his burning hatred for his captors.
His astonishing rise to the top of the Hamas terror tree came despite being sentenced to four life sentences in 1989 for planning the abduction and killing of two Israeli soldiers and the murder of four Palestinians he suspected of working with Israel.
The bearded beast’s life was first saved when he was cured of cancer by an operation in a prison.
Then in 2011 he was freed, among 1,026 others, in a prisoner exchange for a single Israeli soldier in a deal that has been damned by his thousands of victims ever since.
Sinwar taught himself Hebrew and became fluent during his multiple stints as a caged man.
He began reading and studying every Israeli newspaper to probe the weak spots in his enemy’s armour.
The terror master’s deep knowledge of what makes Israelis tick led him to realise the power of the hostage-taking tactic now traumatising the strife-torn Jewish nation.
Yet despite his blood lust and bravado, the Hamas commander “cried like a baby” when he learned he had cancer, his jailer Lieutenant Betty Lahat has revealed.
The Hamas terror attack on Israeli soil killed more than 1,000 people and saw some 250 more kidnapped into Gaza – and sparked war.
IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari said on Thursday: “We fired on the building and went in to search.
“We found him [Sinwar] with a flak jacket and a gun and NIS 40,000.
“He was fleeing from house to house, we identified him as a terrorist, we closed in professionally and eliminated him.”
Hagari said Sinwar was likely moving around in tunnels around southern Gaza for some time before he died.
The terrorist was probably trying “to escape to the north, to safer areas”, when the army closed in, he explained.
Foreign minister Israel Katz dubbed Sinwar’s death a “great military and moral achievement for Israel”.
He also said it could mean fresh hope for hostages still being kept in Gaza and a possible “new reality” in the ravaged Strip.
“The elimination of Sinwar creates an opportunity for the immediate release of the hostages and a potential change that could lead to a new reality in Gaza – without Hamas and without Iranian control,” Katz said.
But it is feared Sinwar’s shadowy brother could be gearing up to take the reins of the terror group – and be worse.
Mohammed Sinwar’s rise to power would bring a new level of threat, according to an Israeli official.
Grisha Yakubovich, a former senior Israeli military official and expert on Palestinian affairs, explained how brother Mohammed Sinwar’s rise to power poses a significant danger.
He told The Sun: “Mohammed Sinwar is just as radical, if not more, than Yahya Sinwar.
“If he takes over the leadership of Hamas, the situation could become significantly worse.”
Footage showed the bombed-out building in Rafah
Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar holding up a child wielding a gun