Yahya Sinwar's 'last orders' revealed: Hamas leader's handwritten 'final will and instructions' for dealing with Israeli hostages emerge after he was killed by IDF

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar urged his fighters to 'take care' of nan remaining hostages successful Gaza to usage arsenic leverage successful his last instructions earlier his death, according to Palestinian media.

Writing scrawled connected 3 pages of statement insubstantial was said to show Sinwar's past directives for his men successful Gaza, relaying orders to clasp connected to nan hostages earlier mounting them free arsenic he considered them 'our unit card', Al Quds reports.

The documents see an instruction to 'take attraction of nan lives of force prisoners and unafraid them, since they are nan bargaining spot successful our hands', citing nan Prophet Mohamed's Hadith to 'visit nan sick, provender nan quiet and relieve nan suffering'.

'Releasing our prisoners tin only beryllium accomplished by guarding force prisoners,' nan matter continues. Other pages spell connected to grounds specifications of nan hostages' names, ages and subject status, wherever applicable.

On a 3rd page, nan precocious Hamas governmental main lists nan names of 11 female prisoners pinch their ages and scattered specifications astir their background.

Al Quds published 3 pages they said had been near by Sinwar earlier he was killed successful an Israeli onslaught successful Gaza connected October 16.

It was not clear from nan study whether much pages existed, but had not been published.

The documents unfastened pinch a verse from nan Quran, which states: '...and afterwards either group them free arsenic a favour aliases fto them ransom'.

The quote is an extract from a longer text, which reads: 'If you brushwood nan disbelievers successful a battle, strike-off their heads. 

'Take them arsenic captives erstwhile they are defeated. Then you whitethorn group them free arsenic a favour to them, pinch aliases without a ransom, erstwhile nan conflict is over. This is nan Law.'

Sinwar follows nan verse pinch nan Prophet's words: 'Visit nan sick, provender nan hungry, and free nan captive.' 

'The work of releasing our prisoners tin only beryllium accomplished by guarding nan enemy's prisoners, and nan reward for liberating nan prisoners is recorded for nan use of nan mujahideen,' Sinwar adds. 

The 11 female hostages mentioned connected nan 3rd page person since been released from captivity.

MailOnline could not verify nan authenticity of nan documents, which contradict 'rumours' repeated by Israeli negotiator Gershon Baskin to The Telegraph that Sinwar had instructed fighters to 'kill their hostages' if he died.

Israel has not yet commented connected nan documents.

Sinwar was killed past Wednesday successful an Israeli onslaught successful nan Palestinian enclave, nan IDF confirmed aft an extended study of dental records.

His decease was viewed arsenic a symbolic triumph for Israel, which has specified warfare objectives of ousting Hamas and returning nan remaining hostages trapped successful Gaza.

But experts person warned that Sinwar's decease could complicate negotiations, pinch Sinwar taking a starring domiciled successful talks done intermediaries.

Dr Andreas Krieg, ssociate Professor of Defence Studies astatine King's College London, said it would beryllium 'very difficult to onslaught a woody wrong Hamas now to get nan hostages back' - and that continued guidance fighting could descend into a 'sort of protracted, atrocious conflict successful Gaza' improbable to extremity soon.

'What we're apt going to spot is that different cells crossed Gaza will apt proceed to resist. And that's besides wherever hostages are being held,' he warned

'The cardinal rumor will beryllium for nan mediators – for Egypt, for Qatar – to really speak to someone. Haniyeh was a very important interlocutor. Sinwar was nan interlocutor afterwards. He's now been killed… So we person a spot of a activity vacuum.

'That will make speech highly difficult and will make it very difficult to move guardant successful position of achieving nan warfare aims, which was getting nan hostages back.'

While Israel is expected to now refocus connected its burgeoning conflict pinch Iran, and its continued operations against Hezbollah successful Lebanon, strikes person continued successful Gaza.

Palestinian officials reported coming that Israeli strikes crossed nan Strip person killed astatine slightest 72 group since Thursday night, and said Israeli forces had launched a night-time ambush connected a infirmary successful nan north.

The Gaza wellness ministry said a onslaught connected houses successful nan confederate metropolis of Khan Younis killed astatine slightest 38, galore of them women and children. 

The Israeli subject said its forces had killed a number of Palestinian gunmen successful aerial and crushed strikes successful nan confederate Gaza Strip and dismantled subject infrastructure.

In bluish Gaza, wherever an area astir nan municipality of Jabalia has been nan target of a weeks-long offensive, wellness officials said Israeli forces stormed Kamal Adwan Hospital, 1 of 3 aesculapian accommodation struggling to run there, and stationed forces extracurricular it.

'The terrorising of civilians, nan injured and children began arsenic they (the Israeli army) started opening occurrence connected nan hospital,' Eid Sabbah, nan hospital's head of nursing, said successful a sound statement to Reuters.

When nan service retreated, a delegation from nan World Health Organisation arrived pinch an ambulance and evacuated immoderate patients. The WHO confirmed it had transferred 49 patients and caregivers to nan Al-Shifa Hospital successful Gaza City.

'We saw mayhem and chaos... The emergency wards (in Kamal Adwan) were overflowing, and we saw galore patients being brought successful and horrific trauma patients, wholly overwhelming nan staff,' Rik Peeperkorn, WHO Representative for nan occupied Palestinian territory said successful an update connected nan operation.

The Israeli subject said it was operating successful nan area of Kamal Adwan Hospital based connected intelligence 'regarding nan beingness of terrorists and violent infrastructure' there.

Medics astatine 3 hospitals person refused Israeli orders to evacuate and time off patients unattended. They said astatine slightest 800 Palestinians had been killed successful bluish Gaza since nan service began nan caller violative 3 weeks ago.

Some residents of Khan Younis sifted done rubble connected Friday successful an effort to retrieve apparel and documents, while children looked for their toys.

Ahmed Sobh recounted really his relative had screamed 'Help me, thief me'.

'We ran and recovered her children, a boy and a girl, martyred. Her boy was lying nether nan actual column, it took america 1.5 hours to get him out,' he told Reuters.

Ahmed al-Farra described digging relatives including his mother from nan rubble, adding he had mislaid 15 members of his extended family during nan airstrikes.