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Malaysia news: blind luck let Israel eliminate elusive Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar. 

JERUSALEM, Oct 19 — Israeli announced death of Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar, mastermind of the attack on October 7, 2023, after a group of soldiers killed him in a surprise firefight in southern Gaza’s Rafah, a massive blow to the Palestinian militant movement that has waged a war with Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip for more than a year now. According to Israeli military, Sinwar met his end at the hands of a routine patrol on Wednesday.

Soldiers of the 828th Brigade (Bislach) was moving through the city of Rafah when it came across three Palestinian militants. Media said there was no prior intelligence pointing to Sinwar’s presence in the area, he hid in places that our forces have explored over a long period of time,” military spokesman Daniel Hagari said Thurs. The forces identified 3-terrorists who were going from home to home on the run,” Hagari said. Soldiers are chased them, Sinwar split from the other two, the military reported, military said a tank later fired at building where two of the militants hid and at the one where Sinwar took cover, it said.

“Sinwar ran away alone into one of the buildings and our forces scanned the area with a drone,” Hagar I said. Footage released by the military showed Sinwar covered in dust sitting in an armchair staring down a drone as the device entered house devastated by strikes. The grainy footage showed Sinwar alone with one hand severely injured & his head covered in a traditional scarf, throwing a stick at the approaching drone during his final moments.

“We identified him as a terrorist inside a building and we shot into the building and we entered to scan the area. We found him with a gun and 40,000 shekels (RM46,300),” Hagari said