{"id":53257,"date":"2024-10-18T18:05:03","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T13:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=53257"},"modified":"2024-10-18T18:05:03","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T13:05:03","slug":"hamas-confirms-death-of-group-chief-yahya-sinwar-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/hamas-confirms-death-of-group-chief-yahya-sinwar-in-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamas confirms death of group chief Yahya Sinwar in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DOHA: Palestinian group Hamas on Friday confirmed its leader <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/hamas-leader-yaha-sinwar-reportedly-killed-in-israeli-airstrike\/\">Yahya Sinwar<\/a> had been killed by the Israeli military in Gaza, a day after Israel announced his death.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We mourn the great leader, the martyred brother, Yahya Sinwar, Abu Ibrahim,&#8221; Qatar-based Hamas official Khalil al-Hayya said in a recorded video statement broadcast by <em>Al Jazeera<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"description\">\n<p>&#8220;Hamas is a liberation movement led by people looking for freedom and dignity, and this cannot be eliminated,&#8217; Basem Naim, senior member of Hamas&#8217;s political bureau, told\u00a0<i>AFP<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sinwar&#8217;s killing &#8220;is the beginning of the day after Hamas&#8221; but the war in Gaza, where more than 42,400 Palestinians have been killed, will not end.<\/p>\n<p class=\"defaultstyled__StyledText-sc-11u52t4-1 cusuZI\">&#8220;I stand before you today to inform you that Yahya Sinwar has been eliminated,\u201d he said in a statement. &#8220;Today evil has suffered a heavy blow, but the task before us is not yet complete &#8230; the war is not over yet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"defaultstyled__StyledText-sc-11u52t4-1 cusuZI\">Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Foreign Minister Israel Katz also issued statements praising the army for the killing, which they said paved the way for a hostage deal in Gaza.<\/p>\n<div class=\"description\">\n<p>&#8220;Mass murderer Yahya Sinwar, who was responsible for the massacre and atrocities of October 7, was killed today by IDF soldiers,&#8221; Israeli FM Katz said in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"description\">\n<p>The United States Vice President Kamala Harris said that Israel&#8217;s killing of the Hamas chief was a chance to &#8220;finally end the war in Gaza.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This moment gives us an opportunity to finally end the war in Gaza,&#8221; the US Democratic presidential candidate told reporters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOHA: Palestinian group Hamas on Friday confirmed its leader Yahya Sinwar had been killed by the Israeli military in Gaza, a day after Israel announced his death. &#8220;We mourn the great leader, the martyred brother, Yahya Sinwar, Abu Ibrahim,&#8221; Qatar-based Hamas official Khalil al-Hayya said in a recorded video statement broadcast by Al Jazeera. &#8220;Hamas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":53259,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[20002,23167],"class_list":["post-53257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-hamas-leader","tag-yahya-sinwar-killed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53260,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53257\/revisions\/53260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}