President Biden called the death of Yahya Sinwar a “moment of justice” that could open “a path to peace” in Gaza. Earlier, he said the U.S. secretary of state would go to Israel to discuss postwar planning.
A unit of Israeli trainee soldiers came upon Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas, while on an operation in southern Gaza, defense officials said.
By James Mackenzie, Nidal al-Mughrabi and Samia Nakhoul JERUSALEM/CAIRO (Reuters) – Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group said on Friday it was moving to a new and escalating phase in its war against Israel while Iran said “the spirit of resistance will be strengthened” after the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar. Sinwar, a mastermind of the […]
Although Yahya Sinwar was a major target of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, the soldiers who killed the militant chief had not expected to run across him, Israeli officials said.
Getty Every Hamas leader since the 1990s has been killed by Israel but there has always been a successor Killing Yahya Sinwar is Israel’s biggest victory so far in the war against Hamas in Gaza. His death is a serious blow for Hamas, the organisation he turned into a fighting force that inflicted the biggest […]
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Death of architect of October 7 attack represents a devastating blow to militant group
The death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar is raising new questions over the course of the war and the fate of hostages still held by the terrorist group, with the U.S. calling on both sides to seize the opportunity to end the fighting, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warning a long road lies ahead. …
After a year hunting its most wanted target in Hamas’s tunnels beneath Gaza, it appears Israel claimed its quarry during a chance encounter in the ruined streets of the coastal strip. When Israeli troops saw Hamas fighters enter a building in Rafah, they had no reason to suspect one of them was their country’s most […]
