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Confirming Sinwar’s death, Hamas insists hostages won’t be freed unless war ends
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The usual Catch-22. The war won't end until the hostages are freed, and the hostages won't be freed until the war ends...
[IsraelTimes] As terror group warns it won’t soften its stance on a deal, Netanyahu consults on campaign’s future; Israel ‘cautiously optimistic,’ but White House says talks yet to restart
Hamas
 ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
on Friday confirmed that its leader Yahya Sinwar had been killed by the Israel Defense Forces on Wednesday.
At the same time, it sought to pour cold water on Israeli hopes of an easier path to a hostage release deal now that the terror leader is gone, saying the 101 hostages still held in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
would not be freed until the war ends and Israel fully withdraws from the enclave.
Both Jerusalem and Washington, meanwhile, expressed cautious optimism that Sinwar’s death could yet hasten the release of the hostages. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was reported by Hebrew media outlets to be holding consultations Friday on the future of the Gaza war in the wake of the demise of Sinwar.
At the same time, the White House said long-stalled truce-hostage talks had yet to be renewed.
An Israeli official also warned that Sinwar’s brother and possible successor Muhammad was no less of a hardliner than the slain terror chief, and suggested Israel could pursue smaller hostage deals with disparate Hamas factions if no central leadership emerges quickly.
Also on Friday, the army released footage of a tank firing at the building where Sinwar was hiding. One of the tank’s shells killed Sinwar, who had been spotted moving through the neighborhood with two bodyguards.
Channel 12 reported that Sinwar’s nephew, who was one of the men killed with him, was carrying many documents relating to the Hamas leader’s affairs, and that these could supply key intelligence to Israel.
In a video statement Friday, Khalil al-Hayya, deputy leader of Hamas’s Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
-based politburo, said Israel would come to regret killing Sinwar, adding that his "martyrdom" would only strengthen the terror group.
The hostages "will not return... unless the aggression against our people in Gaza stops," the senior Hamas official said.
Hamas’s armed wing vowed, in its own statement, to keep fighting Israel until the "liberation of Paleostine," as it mourned the death of the group’s chief.
Hailing the killing in a video statement Thursday, Netanyahu pledged to press on in Gaza and Leb
...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
. He also addressed Paleostinian holy warriors holding hostages in Gaza, saying the captors would be spared if they laid down their arms and released the hostages.
The Prime Minister’s Office said US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant ....
called Netanyahu on Thursday night to congratulate him on Sinwar’s killing, and that the two leaders agreed to pursue the new opportunity to release the hostages.
White House spokesperson John Kirby told news hounds in Washington that Sinwar had been a key obstacle in talks to secure the hostages’ release and a ceasefire in Gaza, and that his killing was an "inflection point" in reaching those goals. However,
if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning...
Kirby noted, talks had yet to be renewed.
An Israeli official told The Times of Israel that Jerusalem was now "cautiously optimistic" that a hostage-ceasefire deal could be reached, but warned that Muhammad Sinwar, Yahya’s brother and potential successor, "is no less extreme than his brother," and that Hamas remains "a murderous terror organization."
There has been no comment from Hamas’s remaining leadership on speculation that Muhammed Sinwar is preparing to take the reins of the terror group. The Israeli official said Jerusalem is considering seeking separate, smaller deals with various Hamas factions that hold some hostages if there is no central leadership to negotiate with.
The Israeli military said Sinwar was killed in a chance firefight in southern Gaza’s Rafah on Wednesday, with forces only discovering who they had killed after the fact.
The Times of Israel understands the IDF believes that the terror leader was hiding in Khan Younis earlier in the war, but was driven out by Israeli military pressure, which left him feeling boxed in and forced him to move locations, staying underground as much as possible.
After spending some time in Rafah, the military believes he was likely trying to reach the al-Mawasi humanitarian area by the coast when he ran into Israeli forces.
Channel 12 reported Friday that Israel believes IDF operations in Rafah’s Tel Sultan neighborhood increasingly denied Sinwar more and more locations in which to hide, forcing him to flee.
Forces spotted three terror operatives Wednesday night, firing at them and injuring them. Two headed into one building, and the third, who it later emerged was Sinwar, went into another, the military said. IDF tanks and other forces then opened fire on both buildings.
Sinwar then went up to the second floor. A tank fired another shell at the building, and an infantry platoon moved up to search it. Sinwar threw two grenades, one of which went kaboom! . The soldiers withdrew, and a drone flew in to search the room. It found a man with his arm injured and his face covered — Sinwar — who threw a wooden stick at the drone. A video published by the army on Thursday showed this moment.
Another tank shell was then fired at the building, killing the Hamas leader.
Sinwar was the architect of the October 7, 2023, Hamas onslaught, when thousands of holy warriors stormed southern Israel to kill nearly 1,200 people and take 251 hostages, sparking the war in Gaza.
The Walla news site reported Friday that Sinwar’s body had been moved to a secret location inside Israel after undergoing an autopsy at the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute overnight.
According to the report, the autopsy confirmed that Sinwar had been killed by a bullet to the head and shell fire.
Walla added that the forensic institute is waiting for the findings of additional tests to determine whether there were drugs or other unusual substances in his blood at the time of his death.
IDF says it killed top Hamas commander responsible for guarding Sinwar; IDF had previously thought him dead
[IsraelTimes] The commander of Hamas’s Tel Sultan Battalion, Mahmoud Hamdan, was not killed several weeks ago as the IDF had announced at the time, but rather, he was killed earlier today, the military announces.
According to the IDF, Hamdan was responsible for guarding Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and the six Israeli hostages who were murdered by their captors in Rafah in late August.
“A few weeks ago it was determined that [Hamdan] was most likely eliminated, following intelligence information. Today we understand that the intelligence finding on which his death was based was not accurate enough,” the IDF says.
The army says Hamdan continued to guard Sinwar since then, and earlier today, troops of the Bislamach Brigade killed him in an exchange of fire, around 200 meters from the site where the Hamas leader was killed on Wednesday.
Troops said to find cache of letters written and received by Sinwar
[IsraelTimes] Troops searching in homes near where Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was killed found a cache of the slain terror leader’s correspondence, including with his 10-year-old son, Channel 12 reports. The report says the letters, both those that he received and sent, are providing Israel with valuable intelligence, but gives no details.
The report also says that among the letters were those between Sinwar and his son, in which Sinwar tried to imbue his son with a hate for Israel. Among the letters sent by the boy were his drawings of dead Israeli soldiers, the report says. The son also asked Sinwar when the war would end.
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