Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu turned down 11 chances to kill Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader in Gaza, months before the terror group’s October 7, 2023, attack, Channel 12 reported Wednesday, citing a senior defense official.

Netanyahu’s office vehemently denied the report, saying the premier was in favor of taking out Sinwar, but “security leadership stopped it.”

Sinwar, who served as the leader of Hamas in Gaza since 2017, was the architect of the October 7 attacks, during which terrorists kidnapped 251 hostages and killed some 1,200 people in Israel, sparking the war that devastated the Strip for over two years. He was eventually killed in October 2024 during IDF operations in Rafah, over a year after the war began.

According to the official quoted by Channel 12, in February and March 2023, the Shin Bet succeeded........

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