Israeli forces in Gaza killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, the architect of the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attacks, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced.
In an address today, Vice President Kamala Harris said Sinwar’s death “gives us an opportunity to finally end the war in Gaza.”
Sinwar, who was born in a refugee camp and spent years in an Israeli prison before he rose to the top of the Iran-backed militant group, was described as a “dead man walking” by the Israeli military in the days after the Oct. 7 attacks.
After Sinwar’s body was found and before he was definitively identified, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant wrote on X: “‘You will pursue your enemies and they will fall before you by the sword.’ — Leviticus 26. Our enemies cannot hide. We will pursue and eliminate them.”
Hostages’ families have called on the Israeli government to use Sinwar’s death to negotiate for their relatives’ release, while Palestinians are voicing hope that it may bring an end to the war.
