Retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Blaine Holt told Newsmax on Thursday that the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar gives Israel a “tremendous opportunity right now on Hamas to move to checkmate.”
Sinwar, the mastermind of the Oct. 7 massacre, was killed during an IDF operation Thursday. The Israeli military confirmed his identity through DNA testing, which they had acquired when Sinwar spent time in an Israeli prison. Holt’s sources told him that the Hamas leader was not the intended target of the strike.
“It was not a result of intelligence,” Holt he said on “American Agenda.” “They were just going after terrorists and found him during the bomb damage assessment. They did find Sinwar and got him tested using DNA really quickly. But here’s where it gets interesting: They have a tremendous opportunity right now on Hamas to move to checkmate.”
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