Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was killed in the city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip, Sky News Arabia reports citing sources.
Israeli source Channel 12 also confirmed Sinwar's death, The Times of Israel writes.
According to Channel 12, the Israeli military did not know that Sinwar was staying in the building that they intended to attack. When they entered the building after the attack, they found the body of a man who looked like the Hamas leader.
The body has not yet been delivered to Israel for identification, as the area where the attack was carried out is full of mines and traps.
Earlier, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reported the possible elimination of Yahya Sinwar. According to them, three Palestinian militants were killed, and their identities were still being established.
The dead were found to be carrying banknotes and fake IDs, Kan publication reports. It will be easy to identify Sinwar, as he had been to an Israeli prison, so the Israeli authorities have his DNA.
Yahya Sinwar, 61, was one of the founders of Hamas. He chaired the organization's politburo in August. The Guardian called him one of the main organizers of last year's October 7 attack on Israel. Sinwar spent more than 20 years in Israeli prisons and was released in 2011 during a prisoner swap.
Sinwar replaced Ismail Haniyeh as the head of the group's politburo. Haniyeh died in late July in an explosion at his residence in Tehran, where he arrived for the inauguration of new president Masoud Pezeshkian.