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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      05 hours ago

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

      • @InverseParallax
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        34 hours 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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          Are you talking about hamas or israel?

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          13 hours 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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            23 hours ago

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

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              151 minutes ago

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