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Israel has targeted Hamas leader Mohammed Sinwar in a strike on a hospital in southern Gaza on Tuesday evening, according to a senior Israeli official and two sources familiar with the matter.
He became the militant group’s de facto leader after the Israeli military killed his brother, Yahya Sinwar, last October.
Tuesday’s strike killed six Palestinians and wounded at least 40 more, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it carried out a strike on the European hospital in Khan Younis, targeting “Hamas terrorists in a command and control center” in underground infrastructure beneath the…