Jerusalem: Israel confirmed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, the architect of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel last year, has been killed in Gaza, with Foreign Minister Israel Katz calling it a “victory for the entire free world”.
There has been no official comment from Hamas but sources in the group said the indications suggested that Sinwar had been killed during an Israeli operation in the area of Tal El Sultan, in southern Gaza.
The Israeli military confirmed in a post on X that Sinwar was dead.
“Mass murderer Yahya Sinwar, who was responsible for the massacre and atrocities of October 7, was killed today by IDF soldiers,” Katz said in a written statement from his office.
“This is a great military and moral achievement for Israel and a victory for the entire free world against the axis of evil of radical Islam led by Iran.”
His death represents a major boost to the Israeli military and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after a string of high-profile assassinations of prominent leaders of its enemies in recent months.
Earlier Israeli police examined dental and DNA evidence to determine if Sinwar, Israel’s top target, had been killed.
The military said earlier it was checking the possibility that Sinwar was among three militants killed during an operation in the Gaza Strip.
Al-Majd, a Hamas-linked website that usually publishes about security issues, urged Palestinians to wait for information about Sinwar from the group itself and not Israeli media outlets, which it said aimed to break their spirit.
Israeli media reported that the operation was a routine raid that caught Sinwar by chance. The military said there were no signs that Israeli hostages had been present in the building.
(Additional reporting by Samia Nakhoul and Tala Ramadan in Dubai, Nidal al-Mughrabi in Cairo; Editing by Gareth Jones, William Maclean, Sharon Singleton)
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“Hitler killed five million [sic] Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher’s knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs…..It would have aroused the world and the people of Germany…. As it is they succumbed anyway in their millions.”
– Mahatma Gandhi, June 1946, in an interview with his biographer Louis Fischer.
The expectations of the world that wants India and Israel to emulate Gandhiji are clear.
Indian National Congress and Rahul Gandhi should hold demonstrations against Israel in protest against this killing. Justin Trudeau should hold parallel demonstrations in Canada for this cause.
No matter what someone does, killing them is wrong, dying at their hands is right.
Good news indeed!
The devil is gone. But Israel should keep up it’s operations and exterminate every single Hamas terrorist.