| death_cause = [[Pembunuhan Yahya Sinwar|Gugur dalam tugas]]
| party = [[Hamas]]
| education = [[Universitas Islam Gaza]]
| death_date = 16 Oktober 2024 (umur 61)
}}
'''Yahya Sinwar''' ({{lang-ar|يحيى السنوار|translit=Yaḥyá al-Sanwār}}, {{lahirmati||29 Oktober |10|1962-||16 Oktober |10|2024}}<ref>{{Cite web|last=Staff|first=Al Jazeera|title=Israel claims Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar has been killed|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/17/israel-claims-hamas-leader-yahya-sinwar-has-been-killed|website=Al Jazeera|language=en|access-date=2024-10-17}}</ref>), juga dieja '''Yehya Sinwar''',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-bombs-hamas-gaza-chiefs-home-fighting-enters-seventh-day-2021-05-15/|title=Israel air strikes kill 42 Palestinians, rockets fired from Gaza|date=15 May 2021|website=Reuters}}</ref> adalah seorang politisi [[wilayah Palestina|Palestina]] dan pemimpin [[Hamas]], [[Islamisme|Islam]] [[Sunni]] <ref name="Lopez2020">{{cite book |last1=Lopez |first1=Anthony |title=The Handbook of Collective Violence: Current Developments and Understanding |url=https://archive.org/details/handbookofcollec0000mich |last2=Ireland |first2=Carol |last3=Ireland |first3=Jane |last4=Lewis |first4=Michael |publisher=[[Taylor & Francis]] |year=2020 |isbn=9780429588952 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/handbookofcollec0000mich/page/239 239] |quote=Kelompok Islam Sunni radikal yang paling sukses adalah Hamas, yang dimulai sebagai cabang Ikhwanul Muslimin di Palestina pada awal tahun 1980an. Mereka menggunakan serangan teroris terhadap warga sipil – khususnya bom bunuh diri – untuk membantu membangun gerakan yang lebih besar, hingga muncul sebagai pemerintah Jalur Gaza yang diakui di Otoritas Palestina.}}</ref> organisasi politik dan militer yang mengendalikan [[Jalur Gaza]]. Dia telah menjadi pemimpin Hamas di Gaza sejak Februari 2017, ketika dia menggantikan [[Ismail Haniyeh]].<ref name="Beaumont">{{Cite news|last=Beaumont |first=Peter |title=Hamas elects hardliner Yahya Sinwar as its Gaza Strip chief |date=13 February 2017 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/13/hamas-elects-hardliner-yahya-sinwar-as-its-gaza-strip-chief |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170213150750/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/13/hamas-elects-hardliner-yahya-sinwar-as-its-gaza-strip-chief |archive-date=13 February 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Balousha">{{Cite news|last1=Balousha |first1=Hazam |last2=Booth |first2=William |date=13 February 2017 |title=Hamas names hard-liner as its new political leader in Gaza |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/hamas-names-hard-liner-as-its-new-political-leader-in-gaza-/2017/02/13/b4e31518-f1f6-11e6-9fb1-2d8f3fc9c0ed_story.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170215201209/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/hamas-names-hard-liner-as-its-new-political-leader-in-gaza-/2017/02/13/b4e31518-f1f6-11e6-9fb1-2d8f3fc9c0ed_story.html |archive-date=15 February 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref> Yahya Sinwar adalah salah satu pendiri aparat keamanan Hamas.<ref name=state>{{Cite web |title=Terrorist Designations of Yahya Sinwar, Rawhi Mushtaha, and Muhammed Deif |publisher=United States Department of State |date=8 September 2015 |url=https://2009-2017.state.gov/r/pa/Prs/ps/2015/09/246686.htm }}</ref><ref name="economist" >{{cite news|title=The Palestinians try to reconcile|url=https://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21730026-latest-effort-likely-fail-palestinians-try-reconcile|newspaper=[[The Economist]]|date=5 October 2017}}</ref>
Lahir di [[kamp pengungsi Khan Yunis]] di Gaza yang dikuasai Mesir pada tahun 1962, keluarganya [[pengusiran dan pelarian Palestina tahun 1948|diusir atau melarikan diri]] dari [[Ashkelon|Al-Majdal Asqalan]] (Ashkelon) selama [[Perang Arab-Israel 1948]]. Ia menyelesaikan studinya di [[Universitas Islam Gaza]] di mana ia menerima gelar sarjana dalam bidang Studi [[Arab]].
