Israel reveals tunnel under Gaza hospital, says Mohammed Sinwar’s body found there

Israeli Army retrieves Hamas military chief's body from Gaza tunnel, exposing Hamas's use of civilian infrastructure as shields.

The Israeli Army said on Sunday (June 8, 2025) it had retrieved the body of Hamas’s military chief Mohammed Sinwar in an underground tunnel beneath a hospital in southern Gaza, following a targeted operation last month.

Another senior Hamas leader, Mohammad Shabana, commander of the Rafah Brigade, was also found dead at the scene along with a number of other militants, who are still being identified, said IDF spokesperson, Brigadier General Effie Defrin.

Israeli forces gave a small group of foreign reporters a tour of the tunnel that had been uncovered beneath the European Hospital in Khan Younis, which Brig. Gen. Defrin said was a major command and control compound for Hamas.

"This is another example of the cynical use by Hamas, using civilians as human shields, using civilian infrastructure, hospitals, again and again," said Brig. Gen. Defrin.

"We found underneath the hospital, right under the emergency room, a compound of a few rooms. In one of them we found, we killed Mohammed Sinwar," he said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Sinwar's death last month, but Brig. Gen. Defrin said they now had his DNA which proved beyond doubt it was him.

Hamas has not commented on reports of the death of either Sinwar or Shabana.