IDF shares video of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar escaping through tunnel network

 The Israel Defense Forces on Tuesday shared a video of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar escaping through a tunnel network, days after the group's brutal attack on Israel.

The IDF said it found the video in recent days when special units discovered a tunnel dozens of meters underground in the Khan Yunis area of the Gaza Strip.

Special units obtained video from a Hamas security camera installed in the tunnel. The video shows Sinwar escaping with his children and one of his wives through a tunnel network led by his brother Ibrahim Sinwar. The IDF said the family fled to one of Hamas's pre-built secure compounds.

The video was recorded on October 10, just three days after Hamas attacked Israel, killing 1,200 people and injuring more than 240 others.

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"While people are suffering above ground, Sinwar is hiding in the tunnels, underground, beneath them, running away like cowards," IDF spokesman RDML Daniel Hagari said in a video address. "Hamas leaders care about their families and money. They don't care about anything else. Yahya Sinwar is only interested in his own survival at the expense of the people of Gaza.

Hagari said an "agreement" had been reached with Hamas and vowed that the terrorist group "will be destroyed."

Sinwar said, "Hamas leaders, wherever they are hiding, are on borrowed time. We will do everything in our power to accomplish our mission." "Liberate our hostages from Hamas and liberate Gaza from Hamas," he said.

Another video released by the IDF shows a tour of Sinwar's underground base. The hideout is equipped with a kitchen, indoor plumbing, UNRWA-stamp as well as a safe with millions of shekels and dollars inside.

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The release of the video came as Israel and Hamas were making progress toward another ceasefire and hostage-release agreement as negotiations continued and Israel threatened to expand its offensive on Gaza's southern edge, where nearly 1.4 million Palestinians have sought asylum.

Israel has made destroying Hamas's regime and military capabilities and freeing the hostages the main goals of its war, which began after an October 7 attack by thousands of Hamas-led militants in southern Israel.

The war has brought unprecedented destruction to the Gaza Strip. The Hamas-run health ministry said more than 28,000 people were killed, more than 70% of whom were women and minors. Israel's attack has devastated large parts of the region, displaced nearly 80% of the population and driven the humanitarian disaster to the brink of starvation, with more than a quarter of the population facing starvation.

Israel disputes these figures, saying that it acted in accordance with international law. It blames Hamas for the high death toll because militants operate in dense residential areas.