Israeli officials said Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was killed by Israel Defense Forces in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday. Hamas has not commented publicly on the reports.

Sinwar was the mastermind of the Oct. 7 terror attacks, which killed 1,200 people and set off Israel’s year-long war against Hamas in Gaza. Israel has made killing him a key objective, and may now be more willing to scale back its military operations in Gaza.

    • @hark
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      No, that’s on israel that actually does not care about the hostages and intentionally torpedoed all negotiations and even killed some of them themselves.

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      11 month ago

      hamas doesn’t know if they’re alive or dead either, considering their command structure is dead

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        11 month ago

        They don’t know because they didn’t care.

        It was just terror factor for them, they didn’t care what happened, who got hurt, just brutality for brutality’s sake.

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          41 month ago

          i’m pretty sure they made demands asking for palestinians to be released from israeli prisons and I’m pretty sure israel rejected those demands

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            01 month ago

            Yeah, that’s exactly the same as attacking, raping, murdering and kidnapping civilians by surprise.

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              11 month ago

              do you believe hamas members are non-human? because it feels like you’re trying to convince me they are non-human

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                Sadly, rape and murder are all too human evils.

                Maybe they are trying to convince you that Hamas is evil.

        • @hark
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          01 month ago

          Are you talking about hamas or israel?