NEWSRAEL: This is definitely one of the most dramatic moments of the long war against Hamas. The dust is finally settling and it's time to explain in details how this event unfolded.
1. Yesterday at 10:00 a.m. a soldier from Battalion 450 spotted a suspicious figure coming out and entering a building in Tel Sultan in Rafah. The fighter pointed out the building to the Brigade (who himself was wounded in the battles on October 7), and the force gradually began to move towards the target with the understanding that there were terrorists there.
2. Around 15:00, when the force activates tanks and infantry forces, 3 figures are identified using a drone moving, entering and exiting from house to house. The realization that these were terrorists who were probably among Sinwar's companions who went one step ahead of him to "open up the area for him". A shot was fired at those terrorists - they were hit and began to disperse.
3. The squad Sinwar was in split up - he entered one structure and another part of the squad entered another structure. Sinwar went up to the second floor, and the tank force fired a shell into that building.