Hamas again without head

The leader of the terrorist group was tracked and killed after negotiations in the United States. Who will take his place?

In the gas sector, the corpse of the leader Hamas Muhammad Synvara was found. The IDF said that over the past day the army, with the support of reservists, "began large -scale ground operations throughout the northern and southern part of the Gaza Strip." New Europe discussed with experts how the death of the leader of the terrorists will affect the negotiations and who can replace him at the post.

Bunker in the hospital

In the city of Khan-Junis in the south of the Gaza sector, in the tunnel in the area of ​​the European Hospital, the body of the leader Hamas Muhammad Syrevar, who was killed by the Israeli air strike a few days ago, Al Arabiya reports with reference to his sources. On May 13, Aviation DSAL (Israeli Defense Army) struck the bunkers in the European Hospital. The Israeli military authorities said that under the medical institution there was a command post of a terrorist group. Together with Synevar’s body, the corpses of ten his assistants were found in Khan Junis. The Defense of Israel The Death of Muhammad Synvar has not yet officially confirmed.

Previously heading Hamas, the elder brother of Muhammad Yahya, Sinvar, was shot dead by the Israeli sniper in the south of the Gaza sector in October 2024. His predecessor as the head of the Politburo Hamas Ismail Khania was killed in Tehran in the summer of 2024.

“There is still no confirmation of the successful elimination of Muhammad Synvar, but the dynamics are still positive,” says Military Expert David Handelmann. -In technical terms, the Synvar bunker operation under the hospital in Khan Junis was carried out according to the same method as against Hassan Nasrolla bunker in Beirut. The defeat of the shelter itself with antibunker bombs, the defeat of all possible outputs and the continuation of the blows around to prevent attempts to save the survivors. Therefore, who did not die from the very blow, may die from suffocation, blockage and inappropriation of help. In such operations, more uninformed random passers -by die, because there is no warning and the object is deliberately located among civilians. For large cones, the IDF reduces restrictions. A blow to a small terrorist in such an environment would be canceled, but on a large one.

“The operation to destroy Muhammad Synvar was carried out according to the same principle that allowed Hassan Nasrol to destroy Hassan in September 2024,” Military journalist Sergei Ausleder says New Year-Europe. -A lot of special bombs were dropped on the dungeon in Khan Yunis, easily breaking the soil, soil and concrete. Blows from the air sealed all the entrances and exits from the dungeon. Those inhabitants of the bunker, who did not overwhelm, quickly suffocated in a closed room.

“The Minister of Defense of Israel Israel Katz, speaking in parliament before the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defense, said that, by all signs, Muhammad Sryvar was destroyed,” Military observer David Sharp tells the New Evrope. - However, in the case of such important figures, there should not be a mistake, and the IDF will wait for one hundred percent evidence that the body belongs to Muhammad Synvara.

After the death of his older brother, Muhammad led the Khamas combat wing in the Gaza Strip and became the leader of the entire group in exclus. Together with him, other high -ranking militants Hamas were eliminated.

For example, the brigade commander of the city of Rafach Muhammad Shaban, who was considered figure three in the group of the group. With a high probability in the bunker, there was also a press secretary of the military wing Hamas Abu UBeid.

According to David Sharp, the European Hospital in Khan Yunis is located about three and a half kilometers from the Israeli border and about two kilometers from the location of the Israeli army.

On the territory of the medical institution, Hamas built an underground complex, including tunnel infrastructure, a system of bunkers and fortified halls. Israeli intelligence has known about him for a long time. But the object was not touched in anticipation of the moment when serious militants will gather in this place.

“Terrorists often arrange their bunkers in medical institutions,” said David Sharp. - There are usually electricity and the Internet in hospitals, and they, according to militants, are a public object and, accordingly, a good shield from Israeli blows.

Couriers with notes

“Reliable sources report that the body found belonged to Muhammad Synvara,” a military expert, a former employee of the special services and police of Israel, Sergei Midal, confirms the Novo-Europe. - Another destroyed action movie is the head of the military wing of the group Muhammad Shaban. As far as I know, Israeli intelligence was able to follow the couriers with which the leader Hamas received reports from the Hamas delegation in negotiations with the United States regarding the liberation of a hostage with American citizenship named Idan Alexander. The whole deal was organized in just five days, and the militants had to reduce safety requirements to simplify the exchange exchange. Since terrorists do not use any mobile communications and walkie -talkie devices, all of them occur with the help of notes transmitted from hand to hand. This method of communication was able to track the Israeli Mossad.

Intelligence intelligence allowed even the drawings of the dungeon. After the decision on the liberation of Idan, Alexander Gorovariy, the militants remained in the Bunker under the European Hospital, where they had housing with bedrooms.

David Sharp says that the HAMAL had a Hamas dungeon in the European Hospital and the planes dropped 40 penetrating ton bombs on the object. Such bombs are designed to destroy well -protected bunkers. And the number of ammunition used did not give any of the terrorists underground the chances of getting to the surface. In the following days, the DSAL aviation also struck the bunker, preventing rescue work.

The leaders end

Muhammad Sinvar back in 2005, after the second intifada, at the age of 30 was appointed commander of the Khan-Junis brigade. And on May 17, the IDF made an attempt on the middle brother of the murdered militants, the active member of Hamas, a professor at Islamic University in Gaza, Dr. Zachariah Syrevar. Now the terrorist is in intensive care.

In the gas sector, there are already few living organizers of the massacre on October 7, 2023. One of those whom Israel has not yet been destroyed is the so-called owner of the north of Exclaw, the commander of the city of Gazz Azz Azz ad-Din al-Khaddad. It is he who, according to experts, can lead the Hamas group in the gas sector. David Sharp calls al-Khaddad an old wolf and recalls that the militant on October 7, 2023 commanded a brigade of the city of Gaza. This formation included up to nine thousand active militants. Now al-Khaddad remains the most authoritative terrorist in exclus. In addition to him, the militant Raad Sad is quite high in the hierarchy of Hamas. He is also on the list of Israel for destruction. The rest of the terrorists have no similar experience and do not have the same respect of subordinates.

“The holy place does not happen, as a military leader of Sinvar, probably, the brigade commander of the city of gas will be replaced, but, while there is still no confirmation, it is also premature to talk about the successor,” adds David Gandelman. - Muhammad Sinvar was considered one of the main obstacles in the negotiations, so its elimination, perhaps, will move the remaining negotiators to compromises. But even without this, the liquidation is useful in itself as a moral and organizational blow.

Sergei Auslander also believes that the commander of the city of Gaza Azz ad-Din al-Khaddad can change Muhammad as the leader of Gaza, as the leader of Gaza. At the same time, the Israelites hope that the group will become more compliant. Sinvar was one of the most serious obstacles to the release of hostages and compromise.

“Muhammad Sinvar was considered a very radical leader who did not agree to go to any compromises,” emphasizes David Sharp. - There is an opinion that after its elimination, Hamas will be more accommodating.

Sergei Migdal says that Muhammad Sryvar had a reputation as an adamant and stubborn action movie. After the end of the truce, the IDF resumed military operations, which was an unpleasant surprise for Hamas leaders. The militants decided not to free half of the living hostages, as the representative of US President Steve Willian proposed to do. The death of Muhammad Synera can make a group more compliant in ongoing negotiations.