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Blinken also met Israeli President Isaac Herzog following talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Jerusalem: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Israel’s leadership on Tuesday that the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar presented an “important opportunity” to end the war in Gaza. “I believe very much that the death of Sinwar does create […]
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Antony Blinken’s latest trip comes as the Israeli military has intensified its campaign in the Palestinian enclave as well as in Lebanon against Iran-aligned Hezbollah militia. File | Photo Credit: AP U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives in Israel on Tuesday (October 22, 2024), the first stop of a wider Middle East tour aimed […]
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File picture of Khaled Meshaal, who is on the Hamas ruling committee | Photo Credit: Reuters Two Hamas sources said the Palestinian militant group was moving towards appointing a Doha-based ruling committee rather than a single successor to its chief Yahya Sinwar, who was killed by Israeli troops last week. “The Hamas leadership’s approach is […]
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A screengrab from a handout video shows what the Israeli Army says is recently killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar walking through a tunnel before the October 7 attacks, in this screengrab obtained by Reuters, released on October 19, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters The Israeli Army on Saturday (October 19, 2024) released footage it said […]
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Protesters, mainly Houthi supporters, stand in front of the billboard showing late Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar as they rally to show support to Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, in Sanaa, Yemen October 18, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah vowed on Friday (October 18, 2024) to launch a […]
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday (October 17, 2024) that the killing of Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar in the Gaza Strip was the “beginning of the end” of the year-long war in the Palestinian territory. Mr. Netanyahu, who vowed to crush Hamas at the start of the war, hailed Sinwar’s killing, saying: “While this […]
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday (October 17, 2024) that the killing of Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar in the Gaza Strip was the “beginning of the end” of the year-long war in the Palestinian territory. The Israeli military said that after a lengthy hunt, troops had on Wednesday (October 16, 2024) “eliminated Yahya Sinwar, […]
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Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that the killing of Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar in the Gaza Strip was the “beginning of the end” of the year-long war in the Palestinian territory. The Israeli military said that after a lengthy hunt, troops had on Wednesday “eliminated Yahya Sinwar, the leader of the Hamas […]
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Washington: US President Joe Biden on Thursday hailed Israel’s killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar as a “good day” for the world, saying it also removed a key obstacle to a Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal. Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee in November’s US election, added that Israel’s killing of the mastermind […]
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Hamas’ top leader Yahya Sinwar, chief architect of Hamas’ attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. | Photo Credit: AP Immediately after Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack in Israel, in which about 1,200 people were killed, the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) called Yahya Sinwar, the leader of the Islamist militant group in Gaza and the […]
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