Dramatic vid shows Hamas boss Yahya Sinwar’s final moments before injured terrorist who masterminded Oct 7 is KILLED

THIS is the astonishing infinitesimal Hamas person Yahya Sinwar was captured connected camera by the Israeli service earlier they assassinated him.

The panic kingpin was killed successful an airstrike connected Gaza yesterday aft a year-long hunt, with officials confirming his individuality aft DNA investigating connected a assemblage recovered astatine the site.

Gruesome images shared online beforehand appeared to amusement his corpse with a immense caput and limb coiled buried successful rubble astatine the onslaught area.

Israel Defence Forces (IDF) confirmed they had identified a violent successful the gathering but did not cognize it was him until aft the hit.

Footage aboriginal released by the service - which appears to person been filmed connected a drone - shows a hunched implicit Sinwar wrong the destroyed building.

Apparently covered from caput to toed successful a heavy furniture of dust, hunched implicit successful a chair, the 62-year-old violent mastermind lives retired his last moments.

The video seems to amusement him trying to assistance thing and failing, with the broadside of the location caved successful and the rooms covered successful rubble.

His close limb appears to beryllium leaning connected the limb of the chair, bloodied and perchance without a hand.

IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari said: "We fired connected the gathering and went successful to search.

"We recovered him with a flak overgarment and a weapon and NIS 40,000.

"He was fleeing from location to house, we identified him arsenic a terrorist, we closed successful professionally and eliminated him."

Hagari said Sinwar was apt moving astir successful tunnels astir confederate Gaza for immoderate clip earlier helium died.

The violent was apt trying "to flight to the north, to safer areas", erstwhile the service closed in.

After archetypal speculation implicit his decease overseas curate Israel Katz said connected Thursday evening: "Mass murderer Yahya Sinwar, who was liable for the massacre and atrocities of 7 October, was killed contiguous by IDF soldiers."

Katz dubbed Sinwar's decease a "great subject and motivation accomplishment for Israel".

He besides said it could mean caller anticipation for hostages inactive being kept successful Gaza and a imaginable "new reality" successful the ravaged Strip.

"The elimination of Sinwar creates an accidental for the contiguous merchandise of the hostages and a imaginable alteration that could pb to a caller world successful Gaza - without Hamas and without Iranian control," Katz said.

Speaking astir Sinwar's death, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said "evil has been delivered a stroke but our task is not complete".

Netanyahu and apical service officials person repeatedly vowed to instrumentality retired Sinwar since October 7 past year.

The Hamas panic onslaught connected Israeli ungraded killed implicit 1,000 radical and saw immoderate 250 much kidnapped into Gaza.

It sparked a horrific warfare successful which much than 42,000 Palestinians person been killed by Israeli airstrikes - according to the UN and different planetary quality rights groups.

Israel precocious launched a crushed cognition successful Lebanon too, wherever Hamas state Hezbollah is based, with Lebanese officials reporting the fig of radical killed arsenic much than 2,300.