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Mohammed Sinwar
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Key facts
- Prime minister
- Issam al-Da'alis
- Preceded by
- Yahya Sinwar
- Succeeded by
- Izz al-Din al-Haddad
- Born
- Mohammed Ibrahim Hassan Sinwar , ( 1975-09-16 ) 16 September 1975, Khan Yunis refugee camp , Gaza Strip
- Died
- 13 May 2025 (2025-05-13) (aged 49), Gaza European Hospital , Al-Fukhari , Khan Yunis , Gaza Strip
- Cause of death
- Assassination by airstrike
- Relatives
- Yahya Sinwar (brother), Sinwar family
- Nicknames
- Abu Ibrahim ( kunya ) The Shadow
- Allegiance
- Hamas
- Branch
- Al-Qassam Brigades
- Service years
- 1991–2025
- Rank
- Commander
- Conflicts
- First Intifada Second Intifada Gaza–Israel conflict 2006 Gaza cross-border raid Gaza War (2008–2009) 2012 Gaza War 2014 Gaza War 2021 Gaza War Gaza war X October 7 attacks
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Muhammad
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Palestine
- Place of birth
- Khan Yunis Camp
- Place of death
- Gaza European Hospital
- Occupation
- mujahid
- Political party
- Hamas
- Languages spoken
- Arabic
- Native language
- Arabic
- Religion
- Islam
- Conflict
- Gaza war
- Image
- محمد السنوار1.png
- Number of children
- 3
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- date of birth
- 1975-09-16
- member of
- Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades
- birth name
- محمد إبراهيم حسن السنوار
- name in native language
- محمد السنوار
- allegiance
- Hamas
- start of work period
- 1991-00-00
- date of death
- 2025-05-13
- manner of death
- homicide
- cause of death
- airstrike
- end of work period
- 2025-05-13
- killed by
- Israeli Air Force
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Encyclopedic overview
Mohammed Ibrahim Hassan al-Sinwar (Arabic: محمد إبراهيم حسن السنوار, romanized: Muḥammad Ibrāhīm Ḥasan as-Sinwār; 16 September 1975 – 13 May 2025) was a Palestinian militant who became the third Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip, following the killing of his brother, Yahya Sinwar in October 2024. He also served as the seventh commander of the Al-Qassam Brigades since November 2024. He held both positions until he was killed by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in May 2025.
Born in the Khan Yunis refugee camp, Sinwar spent several years in Israeli and Palestinian Authority jails in the 1990s and became the leader of Hamas's Khan Yunis Brigade in 2005. Israel attempted to assassinate him several times prior to killing him in May 2025.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mohammed Sinwar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.