Israel Follows Up Targeting of Hamas Leadership Hospital Tunnel Complex
Israel Hayom newspaper: “Israeli officials increasingly believe that Hamas leader Mohammed Sinwar was killed on Tuesday.”
On Wednesday, Israel carried out renewed airstrikes on an underground bunker in southern Gaza where Mohammed Sinwar, a top-ranking terrorist commander and the younger brother of former Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar, is believed to be holed up.
“The IDF targeted areas near the European Hospital in Khan Younis on Wednesday after a massive bombing of the area on Tuesday in an attempt to assassinate Hamas military leader Mohammed Sinwar,” the Israel news outlet Ynetnews reported. “The military carried out a significant bombing attack on an underground command and control center beneath the hospital as attempts to find survivors inside the tunnels continued.
Footage of the IDF strike on senior Hamas leaders including the head of Hamas, Mohammed Sinwar, who was hiding under a hospital (a war crime) in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/WXN3TbRQyo
— Emily Schrader – אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر (@emilykschrader) May 14, 2025
Mohammed Sinwar became Hamas’ overall military chief after an Israeli strike eliminated his notorious brother in an Israeli strike seven months ago.
Tuesday’s strike, which targeted Sinwar’s terrorist brother, appears to be the single biggest Israeli airstrike against Hamas since the Gaza war broke out in the aftermath of the Hamas-led October 7 massacre. “The IAF on Tuesday dropped approximately 40 bunker-busting bombs weighing a total of about a ton, similar to the elimination of Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah, who was also in an underground bunker, ” the Israel news website Arutz Sheva reported Wednesday.
The IDF is assessing if the strike on Mohammed Sinwar also took out Hamas spokesman Abu Obaida pic.twitter.com/K5yb4P7YxQ
— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) May 14, 2025
Besides Mohammed, other senior terrorists were believed to be inside the Hamas bunker when Tuesday’s strike took place. Hamas spokesman Abu Obeidah and the terror group’s Rafah Brigade commander, Muhammad Shabana, may have been hiding at the site.
The Times of Israel covered the details of the IDF strike:
On Tuesday afternoon, Israeli forces launched a wave of airstrikes on underground infrastructure near the European Hospital in Khan Younis, sending plumes of gray smoke into the sky above southern Gaza.
Israeli security officials say the massive bombardment was aimed at Muhammad Sinwar, thought to be the de facto leader of the Hamas terror group in Gaza.
Sinwar assumed leadership of Hamas’s military wing following the July assassination of its previous leader Mohammed Deif, and later emerged as the group’s top commander in the Strip after his older brother Yahya Sinwar, who had been Hamas’s leader, was killed by Israeli forces in late October.
Israeli intelligence believes Sinwar was inside the targeted tunnels at the time of the attack.
According to security sources, if he was inside, he was likely killed due to the force of the strike, but confirmation is still pending.
While the IDF is still assessing the outcome of Tuesday’s strike, some defense officials believe that Sinwar and other senior Hamas terror commanders may have been among those killed in the operation. “The IDF’s strike on Tuesday night to try to kill Hamas chief Mohammad Sinwar may have killed Hamas Rafah Brigade commander Muhammad Shabana, sources estimate,” the Jerusalem Post reported Wednesday. “There are also some reports that Hamas’s spokesman, Abu Obeidah, may have also been killed in the same strike.”
Wow, those bunker-buster bombs are not a joke.
If Mohammed Sinwar is down there, he's done.pic.twitter.com/kW6jBJakiH
— Vivid.🇮🇱 (@VividProwess) May 13, 2025
It may take days, if not weeks, to verify the success of the underground strike, media reports suggest. “Israeli officials increasingly believe that Hamas leader Mohammed Sinwar was killed on Tuesday,” the Israel Hayom newspaper observed. “However, officials stress that, as in the case of Hamas military commander Mohammed Deif, final confirmation may take several days or even weeks.”
IDF orders new evacuation orders for northern Gaza after Hamas terror activities
Israeli military, on Wednesday, issues fresh evacuation orders for parts of northern Gaza in response to Hamas’s terrorist activities in the area.
According to social media posts, the evacuation order include Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital, repeatedly used by Hamas in the past for sheltering terrorists and hoarding weapons.
The IDF raided the hospital in November 2023 and March 2024, capturing or killing senior Hamas terrorists and hundreds of jihad fighters.
BREAKING 🔴🔴
In a rare and urgent warning, the IDF’s Arabic spokesman ordered the evacuation of key sites in Gaza City, including Shifa Hospital, the Islamic University, and multiple schools—declaring: “The IDF will strike with full force due to the area’s use for terrorist… pic.twitter.com/7b5Cx93UtM
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) May 14, 2025
The Times of Israel reported:
The IDF issues an evacuation warning for Palestinians in several schools and a hospital in Gaza City’s Rimal neighborhood, saying that Hamas is exploiting the civilian sites for terror.
“Due to the Hamas terror organization exploiting civilian areas for terror activities, as shown in the attached image, the IDF will attack the area with great force,” warns the IDF’s Arabic-language spokesman, Col. Avichay Adraee.
“For your safety, you must evacuate the area,” he adds.
The school complexes and Shifa Hospital are used by displaced Gazans as shelters.
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The fact the left hasn’t flooded the intraweb with stories of Jews killing babies perhaps tells us that the majority of deaths WERE Hamas terrorists.
If it killed Gazans, it killed Hamas folks.
Do stupid things…..win stupid prizes.
It’s a shame that the IDF couldn’t just flood the tunnels with gunnite……once that concrete sets, nothing short of TNT is going to move it and Hamas would never be able to access them again. The video from a couple of years ago showing the liquid concrete flooding the street in Gaza (introduced on the Israeli side of the border) is a hoot.
However, this works as well.
Keep the pressure on. And, now, Israel must finish the job in Yemen, now that #47 appears — in an ill-advised move — to be wrapping up U.S. strikes against the Houthis, rather prematurely, based upon ill-advised counsel.
https://thedailyscroll.substack.com/p/may-13-did-the-houthis-beat-america
Probably nothing left of value to blow up anymore anyways 🤷♂️😂 But you know, all these former generals and people with knowledge must absolutely be trusted right 🙄😂
Who had pegged the left as the party of never ending war? 🤔
Make the rubble bounce!
That video looked like the Burma quake one I saw earlier today. But with much more KABLOOIE. Nice. Very nice, indeed.
Question for military types:
Bombs used were 5001b – 500 x 40 = 20001b = 1Ton
There were called bunker buster,
What is difference between these bombs and standard 5001b? Are they just constructed tougher and fused to allow penetration before boom?
Usually a bunker buster is a GBU-31, which is a 2,000-pound “class” munition guided by an $18,000 tail kit. In other words, a dumb bomb with a guidance kit strapped on.
To be a bunker buster, the shell of the bomb may be reinforced, and the fuse is set on a delay. So rather than exploding on contact, it explodes a few tenths of a second later. The delay allows the kinetic energy of the bomb to propel the bomb into the ground before exploding. An underground explosion does less damage to surface items, but greater damage to caves and tunnels underground (anything with air space in it).
A 2,000 pound class is a rather large bomb too, and near misses are generally fatal to underground targets. WWII analysis of bunker busters showed more structural damage occurred if the underground bomb exploded next to a structure, rather than in the void space inside a structure.
Thanks. The story above said 40 bombs weigh a total of ton which is how I ended up with 500lb bombs.
I think it was in Lebanon where Israel dropped a series of bunker busters aimed at the same coordinates so each successive bomb dug deeper.
Silly Emily! Arabs don’t commit war crimes don’t you know.
Besides Mohammed, other senior terrorists were believed to be inside the Hamas bunker when Tuesday’s strike took place.
Oh my. If true, that would be a shame.
Bad things happen to people that rape, decapitate babies, and murder indiscriminately.