Sinwar led a terrorist organization and met a predictable fate on the battlefield. Netanyahu, however, is a democratically elected national leader whose actions reveal a profound betrayal of the trust placed in him by the Israeli people.
Getty Images Yahya Sinwar, pictured in June 2021, was killed by Israeli forces on Wednesday A displaced Palestinian from Gaza has told the BBC that the house the former Hamas leader was killed in was his home for 15 years before he had to flee in May. Ashraf Abo Taha said he was “shocked” as […]
Two Hamas officials told the BBC discussions to choose a successor for the group’s leader Yahya Sinwar, whose killing was confirmed on Thursday, will begin very soon. The officials said that Khalil al-Hayya, Sinwar’s deputy and the group’s most senior official outside Gaza, is considered a strong candidate. Al-Hayya, who is based in Qatar, currently […]
WASHINGTON — President Biden and his senior leadership hailed Israel’s killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar as an “opportunity” to end the yearlong war that has devastated the Gaza Strip and killed thousands of Palestinians. Speaking Friday in Germany, Biden said he telephoned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and told him the elimination of the radical […]
The leader of Hamas, Yahya Sinwar, was killed in battle between Israel and militants in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday. Sinwar, the architect of the October 7 attacks, was a top target for Israel. After months of Israel claiming that Sinwar was hiding in tunnels behind “human shields,” the Hamas leader was gravely wounded by […]
A unit of Israeli trainee soldiers came upon Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas, while on an operation in southern Gaza, defense officials said.
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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IDF A drone slips through a glassless window of the second floor of a battle-scarred building. Through the dust cloud whipped up by its propellers, its IDF operators spied a lone man, his face covered, sitting hunched on an armchair. It is an injured Yahya Sinwarthe Hamas leader and the mastermind of the Oct 7 […]
