Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar killed, Israeli foreign minister says

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****** leader Yahya Sinwar *******, ******** foreign minister says

People are reflected in a window displaying a poster of newly appointed ****** leader Yahya Sinwar.

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******** Foreign Minister ******* Katz on Thursday said ****** leader Yahya Sinwar was ******* by *******’s military forces.

“The elimination of Sinwar creates an opportunity for the immediate release of the hostages and a potential change that could lead to a new reality in Gaza—without ****** and without Iranian control,” he said in a statement, according to NBC News.

******** Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a press statement that, although Sinwar’s ****** is “a significant milestone,” for ******* “the war is not yet over.”

“****** will no longer rule Gaza. This is the beginning of the day after ******, and this is an opportunity for you, the residents of Gaza, to finally break free from its tyranny,” Netanyahu said.

Earlier in the day, the ******* Defense Forces said they were investigating the “possibility” that Sinwar was among three militants ******* in an operation in the Gaza Strip, whose identities they could not confirm at the time.

“It seems that ******* believes that ******** our leaders means the end of our movement and the struggle of the ************ people,” a member of the ****** political bureau said in a statement, according to NBC News reporting. “They can believe what they want, and this is not the first time they said that.”

In a press statement, President Joe Biden commended the news, adding that he would be speaking with ******** officials. As the news broke, Biden was en route to Germany to meet with allied countries for talks on Ukraine and the Middle East.

Previously leader of ****** in the Gaza Strip, Sinwar, 62, assumed overall command of the Iran-backed organization in August, following the ************** of former political chief Ismail Haniyeh. Sinwar’s ****** marks the most dire ***** ******* has dealt ****** in the yearlong conflict sparked by the ************ militant group’s Oct. 7 ******* attacks on the ******* state, which ******* has accused Sinwar of orchestrating.

Yahya Sinwar, chief of the ************ Islamist ****** movement in Gaza, delivers a speech during a rally marking “Jerusalem Day,” or Al-Quds Day.

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The offensive propelled the ******** government of Netanyahu to launch a retaliatory operation in the Gaza Strip in a bid to dismantle the military capabilities and leadership of the ************ group.

More than 42,000 ************ people have been ******* in the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, according to the local Health Ministry, while 101 people abducted from ******* are believed to remain hostages of ****** in the enclave. The Hostages Families Forum, representing families of the captives, welcomed the Thursday news

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, but urged the ******** government to use this opportunity as leverage to secure the return of hostages.

It is unclear who would succeed Sinwar as leader of ******. Washington, which has been brokering talks between ******* and ****** alongside Qatar and Egypt, indicated that Sinwar’s ****** could ease the resumption of stalled negotiations for a cease-*****.

The ****** leader’s ******** is a “seismic event that changes the nature of this conflict,” U.S. State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller said, accusing the ****** leader of having been “the chief obstacle” to securing a truce.

“Over the past few weeks, there have been no negotiations for an end to the war because Sinwar has refused to negotiate,” Miller said. “We now see an opportunity with him being removed from the battlefield, being removed from the leadership of ******, and we want to seize that opportunity.”

Since October last year, the war in the Gaza Strip has expanded to include direct hostilities between ******* and Iran, along with clashes between the ******* state and other Tehran-backed factions, such as Yemen’s Houthis and Lebanese group Hezbollah — whose leader Hassan Nasrallah was

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last month by ******** forces in an air ******* in Beirut.

Markets have been mired in the Middle East conflict, which now poses substantial risks to oil supplies, if ******* answers the latest Iranian hostilities with strikes targeting Tehran’s energy infrastructure and export facilities.

Houthi maritime attacks against ships it claims are linked to *******, the U.S. or the U.K. — which have also been carried out against unaffiliated vessels — have meanwhile disrupted a key commercial route in the Red Sea that links Asia-Pacific and the Mediterranean.

Leader of ****** in the Gaza Strip

Sinwar was born in a ******** camp in the Gaza enclave and spent at least 22 years of his ****** life in ******** prisons. He had been sentenced to life in 1989 for directing the ******** of two ******** soldiers and four Palestinians that he believed to be collaborators, having already made a name for himself as “the Butcher of Khan Yunis” for his hunting down of Palestinians he suspected to be working with *******.

FILE PHOTO: ****** leader Yahya Sinwar looks on as ************ ****** supporters take part in an anti-******* rally over tension in Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque, in Gaza City October 1, 2022. 

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He was released early, however, in a highly controversial prisoner swap in 2011 that saw more than 1,000 ************ prisoners exchanged for one ******** soldier, Gilad Shalit, who had been abducted by ****** five years prior.

Sinwar later said in interviews that he used his time in prison to learn to speak, read and write in Hebrew, and to understand the psychology and behavior of his ******** captors. In 2015 he was designated a ********** by the U.S. government.

The International ********* Court in May said it was filing arrest warrant applications for Sinwar and Haniyeh for war ******* and ******* against humanity. It simultaneously filed arrest warrant applications for war ******* and ******* against humanity for Netanyahu and ******** Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.

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