After
reports yesterday that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar had made contact with mediators regarding a hostage deal after weeks of being incommunicado, the Ynet news site cites unnamed Israeli sources as asserting that is untrue.
“That’s incorrect. Sinwar didn’t make contact with the mediating countries,” a source reportedly says.
Multiple reports in Israeli and foreign media outlets said yesterday that Sinwar had reestablished contact with mediators in Qatar, after weeks of silence that had stirred speculation he might have been killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza.