“Yahya Sinwar remains the decision-maker. He remains — we believe — alive and in a tunnel underneath Gaza, holding hostages, and likely with hostages in his vicinity,” McGurk said during a High Holiday call the White House held with American rabbis.
McGurk’s remarks were the most detailed update regarding the status of Sinwar from a senior US official in weeks.
In recent days, Sinwar reportedly reestablished contact with Hamas officials outside of Gaza after more than a month in which he had not been heard from.
The Wall Street Journal reported earlier Wednesday that Sinwar ordered commanders in the West Bank to renew suicide attacks in Israel shortly after he replaced Ismail Haniyeh as head of the terror organization’s politburo following the latter’s assassination in Tehran. READ MORE
