Hamas leader Sinwar's final moments captured by IDF drone
Israeli Defense Force drone footage captures the final moments of top Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in Gaza. FOX News' Matt Finn provides an update on the fallout from his death, and America's Newsroom co-anchor Bill Hemmer explains the gruesome footage.
2024 saw the deaths of a number of major international figures, from Putin critic Alexei Navalny to Israel's biggest enemy in the Middle East.
Here are five celebrities who lost their lives this year.
Alexei Navalny – February 16th
Alexei Navalny — a fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin — Died in a Siberian penal colony Russian officials at the time said Navalny reported feeling unwell after the walk, then lost consciousness and died.
Navalny was being held in the IK-3 penal colony in Harp, also known as “Polar Wolf,” which is considered one of the country's toughest prisons. The 47-year-old man was serving a prison sentence in 2019. He says the charges were politically motivated.
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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny attends a rally in support of political prisoners in Moscow, Russia, September 29, 2019. (Sefa Karacan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Navalny was previously the victim of an assassination attempt in 2020, during which he was poisoned by the suspected nerve agent Novichok.
August, Navalny's widow report returned Investigators said he died of arrhythmia and multiple illnesses and called the discovery a “pretty pathetic attempt to cover up what happened, which is murder.”
Ebrahim Raisi – May 19th
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdullahian and other officials passed away on may 19th after their helicopter crashes in a mountainous area of the country.
Raishi, 63 years old He is nicknamed “The Butcher of Tehran”. He was previously sanctioned by the first Trump administration for his role in carrying out the massacre of 5,000 Iranian political prisoners in 1988 and the massacre of 1,500 Iranian protesters by the clerical regime in 2019. was receiving.
Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi during a meeting on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan in September 2022. (Sputnik/Alexander Demyanchuk/Reuters)
An official investigation into the helicopter crash later found that difficult climatic and atmospheric conditions were to blame.
Ismail Haniyeh – July 31st
Ismail Haniyeh, 62, was the head of the political bureau of the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas. killed in an airstrike July 31 in Tehran after attending the inauguration ceremony of Iran's new president.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, but Israel was quickly condemned After pledging to kill Haniya and other Hamas leaders over the terrorist group's Oct. 7 attack on the Jewish state.
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Ismail Haniyeh speaks at a press conference on March 26, 2024 in Tehran, Iran. (Majid Asgaripour/West Asia News Agency/Reuters)
Haniya is Captured by Israeli military in 1989 He was stripped of his Hamas membership and spent three years in prison. In 1992, he was deported to Lebanon along with a group of Hamas leaders and founders. He then returned to the Gaza Strip following the 1993 Interim Peace Agreement signed between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Since 2018, the United States has designated Haniyeh as a terrorist due to his close ties to the military wing of Hamas.
Hassan Nasrallah – September 27th
Hassan Nasrullah The leader of the Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut on September 27th.
64 years old He was inside Hezbollah's central headquarters.
IDF profile photo of Hassan Nasrallah, the Hezbollah terror leader killed in an airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon. (IDF Spokesperson Unit)
The IDF said Nasrallah founded Hezbollah in 1982 and “initiated, planned, and carried out thousands of terrorist attacks against the Israeli people, the Jewish community, and people around the world.”
It added: “Under his leadership, Lebanon became an armed base with advanced precision weapons of various ranges aimed at Israel and the entire region.”
Yahya Sinwar – October 16th
Yahya Sinwar was killed on October 16 during an Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip.
Hamas leader Shinwar is widely believed to be behind the massacre of Israeli civilians carried out by thousands of Hamas terrorists on October 7th.
Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was seen taking refuge in a tunnel in the Gaza Strip in the hours leading up to the October 7 attack on Israel, according to the IDF. (IDF)
If you are 61 years old, Israel mentioned Known as the “Butcher of Khan Yunis” for his violent and cruel torture methods against his Israeli and Palestinian enemies.
The Israel Defense Forces had targeted Sinwar for years, calling him a “dead man walking.” He remained in hiding in the Gaza Strip for months during Israel's war with Hamas.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said of Sinwar: “I ran away because I was afraid of the soldiers.” before being killed.
Fox News' Landon Mion, Benjamin Weinthal and Morgan Phillips and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
