HAMAS leader Yahya Sinwar has abandoned Gaza’s terror tunnels and is hiding among Palestinians “dressed as a woman”, Israeli intelligence sources said last night.

The architect of the October 7 atrocities, Sinwar was already a target on Israel’s hit list when he was promoted to leader of Hamas’ political wing following the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran earlier this month.

Israeli military chiefs believe that capturing or killing the new terror leader would deal the final death blow to Hamas’s political hierarchy, causing it to splinter and dissolve as an entity.

So worried is Sinwar about his personal safety that last week he insisted on adding a new condition to fragile ceasefire talks in Cairo which protect him from Israel’s…