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18-10-2024
JERUSALEM/ BEIRUT: Israel has claimed its forces have killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in an attack in the southern Gaza Strip.
The Israeli military confirmed Sinwar’s death on Thursday but Hamas has not yet commented on the claim.
According to the Israeli military statement, Sinwar was killed on Wednesday after soldiers “eliminated three fighters.”
In August, Hamas appointed its Gaza leader, Sinwar, as the group’s political bureau head to succeed Ismail Haniyeh. Haniyeh was assassinated during a visit to Iran on July 31.
Here are some reactions to Sinwar’s death, starting with those closest to the situation:
Israel
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel has “settled its account” with Sinwar but “war is not yet ended.”
Families of Israeli captives
Israeli campaign group the Hostages and Missing Families Forum welcomed the Israeli army’s statement, saying Sinwar’s death should help “secure” the release of captives still in Gaza.
The Forum “welcomes Yahya Sinwar’s elimination and urges leveraging this major achievement to secure hostages’ return,” it said in a statement.
United States
US President Joe Biden said Sinwar’s death marks a moment of relief for Israelis while providing the opportunity for a “day after” in Gaza without the group in power.
“Yahya Sinwar was an insurmountable obstacle to achieving all of those goals. That obstacle no longer exists. But much work remains before us,” Biden said in a statement.
Germany
Germany’s Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, in a statement, branded Sinwar “a cruel murderer and a terrorist.”
France
President Emmanuel Macron called for the release of “all hostages” held by Hamas in Gaza after Israel said it had killed Sinwar.
NATO
NATO chief Mark Rutte told reporters at a Brussels news conference that “if he has died, I personally will not miss him,” referring to Sinwar.
Italy
Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said: “It seems that the military leader of Hamas has been killed and I believe that from this point of view Israel may have carried out its self-defence against the Hamas terrorists.”
United Kingdom
John Healey, the United Kingdom’s defence secretary, said: “I, for one, will not mourn the death of a terror leader like Sinwar, someone who was responsible for the terror attack on October the 7th.”
Meanwhile, Israel claims its forces killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in the Gaza Strip. There has been no comment from Hamas on Sinwar, who succeeded Hamas’s Ismail Haniyeh after his assassination by Israel in July.
At least 10 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli strike on the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza following the killing of at least 28 people, including children, in an Israeli attack on a UN shelter in northern Gaza’s Jabalia. (Int’l News Desk)
