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Israel said Thursday that Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader and mastermind of the Palestinian group’s attacks on Israeli soil on Oct. 7, 2023, has died.

Below is a list of some senior Hamas leaders and commanders:

MARWAN Issa

In March, Israel said it had killed Marwan Issa, a deputy to then-Hamas military leader Mohammed Deif, but the militant group did not confirm his death. Deif was killed in an Israeli airstrike in July.

Issa, nicknamed “Shadow Man” by his fellow Palestinians for his ability to stay out of enemy sight, has risen to third place in the Islamist militant group. He and two other senior Hamas leaders formed a three-member secret military council that made strategic decisions.

KHALED MESHAAL

Meshaal, 68, led Hamas from 2004 to 2017. He became famous around the world in 1997 when Israeli agents injected him with poison in the Jordanian capital Amman during a botched assassination operation. He now lives in Qatar along with other senior Hamas officials.

MOHAMMAD SINWAR

Brother of Yahya Sinwar, he is one of the most senior commanders of Hamas’s armed wing. Born on September 15, 1975, he rarely appeared in public and rarely spoke to the press.

Mohammed Sinwar, like his brother, was a top target on Israel’s wanted list and, according to Hamas sources, survived several Israeli attempts on his life, including airstrikes and bombings. According to sources, the last attempt on his life before the Gaza war occurred in 2021.

KHALIL AL-HAYA

Haya was Sinwar’s deputy and recently led the Hamas team in indirect ceasefire talks with Israel under Haniyeh. In Tehran, Haya was in the same house where Haniyeh was hit by a short-range projectile, but not in the same apartment at the time of the attack, according to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.

In 2007, an Israeli strike on his family’s home killed several relatives, and in 2014, an attack on his home killed his eldest son.

MAHMUD AL-ZAHAR

Zakhar was a surgeon by profession. He was often called “the general” by friends and foes alike for his hard-line views toward Israel and other Hamas opponents.

Since October 7, Zakhar has not made any statements or public appearances, and his fate remains unknown.

The 79-year-old official survived an Israeli assassination attempt in 2003. He was the first foreign minister appointed by Hamas after the group seized power in the Gaza Strip in 2007 in a short civil war with the Palestinian Authority, a year after it crushed parliament. elections.

MOHAMMAD SHABANA

Shabana, better known as Abu Anas Shabana, is one of the oldest and highest-ranking armed commanders remaining in Hamas, leading his battalion in Rafah in the south of the country.

According to Hamas sources, Shabana played an important role in the development of the Rafah tunnel network, which was used to attack Israeli troops along the border, including a cross-border attack in 2006 in which soldier Gilad Shalit was captured.

Shabana took command of the Rafah battalion after Israel killed three of the group’s top commanders during the 50-day war in 2014, during which the Islamist group said it had kidnapped two Israeli soldiers.

RAVI MUSHTAHA

Mushtaha was Sinwar’s confidant and his strongest ally in Hamas. Along with Sinwar, Mushtaha founded Hamas’s first security apparatus in the late 1980s, tasked with hunting down and killing Palestinians accused of spying for Israel.

He was released from Israeli prison along with Sinwar in 2011 and was recently tasked with coordinating the Gaza team and Egyptian security officials on a range of issues, including the Rafah border crossing.

On October 3, Israel said that Mushtaha had been killed in an attack in the Gaza Strip three months earlier. Hamas has never confirmed or denied this, and Mushtahi’s fate remains unclear.