Top Israeli and American officials would stay in close contact throughout the morning as the Israeli military worked to confirm that a body found in the rubble in northern Rafah was Sinwar. But even the pictures of Sinwar’s body had senior US officials feeling confident that the mastermind of the October 7 attacks had been killed, according to a senior US official.

There had been significant leads about Sinwar’s whereabouts in the past, and even a few moments when US officials believed the Israeli military had gotten close to the terrorist leader. That Sinwar was ultimately killed in an operation that was not intended to target him made the development — coming just days after the one-year anniversary of the start of the Israel-Hamas war — all the more remarkable.
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