New Delhi, May 29 -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on the 600th day of the Gaza war, announced that the military had killed Mohammed Sinwar, Hamas's top commander in Gaza and brother of slain Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.

"We drove the terrorists out of our territory, entered the Gaza Strip with force, eliminated tens of thousands of terrorists, eliminated... Mohammed Sinwar," Netanyahu told the Israeli parliament.

Sinwar, dubbed "the shadow" and "the ghost" for his secretive operations, was reportedly killed in an Israeli airstrike on May 13 near the European Hospital in Khan Yunis, according to Israeli media.

Hamas did not respond to AFP's request for confirmation. And, Israeli military sources, according to Sky News, have ...