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On Thursday, October 17, news that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, 62, had been killed fighting a group of Israeli soldiers who came upon him first began to circulate On Friday, October 18, Hamas confirmed his death while engaged in battle in Tal as-Sultan, Rafah, on Wednesday, October 16 In this report, Legit.ng highlights the top […]
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 […]
Flattened villages, burned fields, homes pockmarked with bullet fire, and smoke billowing out of freshly bombed infrastructure: Southern Lebanon is beginning to look like war-torn Gaza. In Lebanon, as in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military has been unleashed without any coherent strategic vision or clear war aim. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu first said […]
Israel and Hamas signal they aren’t ready for a cease-fire, as the White House seeks a broad diplomatic deal. Source link
The Israel military confirmed that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was killed in an operation in the southern Gaza Strip on Oct.16 “after a year-long pursuit”Foreign Minister Israel Katz said also said that Sinwar, “responsible for the massacre and atrocities of October 7, was eliminated.” The Israeli army and domestic security agency Shin Bet said Sinwar […]
Hamas vowed on Friday it would not release the hostages it seized during its October 7 attack on Israel until the Gaza war ends, as it mourned the death of its leader Yahya Sinwar. The killing of Sinwar, the mastermind of the deadliest attack in Israeli history, had raised hopes of a turning point in […]
Il 18 ottobre il gruppo palestinese Hamas ha affermato, il giorno dopo l’annuncio dell’uccisione del suo leader Yahya Sinwar, che gli ostaggi detenuti nella Striscia di Gaza non saranno liberati fino a quando Israele non avrà messo fine alla sua offensiva. Israele ha annunciato il 17 ottobre la morte di Sinwar, ucciso il giorno prima […]
Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group said Friday it is entering a new phase in its fight against invading Israeli troops, as the region continued to reckon with Israel’s claim that top Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar has been killed in a battle with Israeli forces in Gaza the previous day. Hamas has still not responded to the […]
4 Israel announced on Thursday the killing of Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar, mastermind of the October 7 attack, calling his death a “heavy blow” to the Palestinian group it has been fighting for more than a year. The Israeli military said that after a year-long hunt, troops had on Wednesday “eliminated Yahya Sinwar, the leader […]
Damage assessments from UNOSAT estimate that 66% of structures in Gaza are damaged as of September 6, 2024, of which 78% are moderately to severely damaged or destroyed. This is about 128,000 buildings. For scale, Reuters compared the count to all the buildings in Manhattan. Source link