File Photo: Yahya Sinwar, head of Hamas in Gaza. AP
Military spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari showed the alleged images at a televised briefing reported by AFP.
The video showed a man, two children and a woman – whom Israel claims were Sinwar, his children and his wife – moving through a tunnel.
Ahram Online has not been able to verify the authenticity of the footage or the exact time it was recorded.
Hagari said Sinwar had "spent years planning the 7 October attack" against Israel.
The Israeli military spokesman said that following the onset of Israel’s war in Gaza, Israeli military operations in the city of Khan Younis forced Sinwar to move to Rafah.
There, he said, the Hamas leader’s DNA was found on a tissue “a few hundred metres” from a tunnel where six Israeli captives were found, alleging that those captive were killed.
However, the Israeli military spokesman didn’t provide any evidence to prove his claims.
Hagari said that the Hamas chief’s death did not mean the Israeli war on Gaza was over. He added that Israel would not rest until all its captives were returned home, “by any means possible.”
Hamas continues to demand complete Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, an end to hostilities, the transfer of humanitarian aid, and the reconstruction of the war-torn territory as conditions for accepting a ceasefire and releasing captives.
Sinwar was killed on Thursday by Israeli occupation forces during a gun battle near Rafah in southern Gaza.
Drone footage released by the Israeli military captured the final moments of Yahya Sinwar alone in a destroyed apartment in Gaza.
The footage, which was hailed by both supporters and critics, contradicts Israel’s claims over the past year that Sinwar was hiding in a tunnel surrounded by captives.
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