Tel Aviv/IBNS, May 28 -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday announced that the country's army has killed Hamas' Gaza chief Muhammad Sinwar, media reports said.

"We eliminated Muhammad Sinwar. We (Israel) had eliminated Ismail Haniyeh, Mohammed Deif, Yahya Sinwar, and now Muhammad Sinwar," Prime Minister Netanyahu said, speaking in Hebrew at the Knesset - Israel's parliament.

Reports about the Hamas chief being grievously injured in a massive airstrike by Israel on May 14 had been doing the rounds, but at that time, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) was not in a position to confirm if the strike had killed him.

Muhammad Sinwar was the brother of former Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar, who was killed in a clash with the Israel...