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His symbolic death as being the last one of the Hamas leaders, but also the mastermind of the October 7 attack gives Israel the ladder to climb down from the total victory tree and say, OK, we have won the war,
Hamas is no different than WWII Nazis and I fully support Israel’s commitment to neutralize them,
the Pennsylvania senator said in a tweet last month I want to salute Israel and celebrate the elimination of Yahya Sinwar—a necessary move for any future enduring peace. Eliminating the mastermind of the 10/7 massacre is the definition of justice served. My vote and my voice for Israel will not waver,
Fetterman declared in social media posts on Thursday Stop pretending Hamas has any interest in true peace. I remain standing with Israel in its right to eradicate Hamas and strongly reject any international pressure, interference, or commentary."
In a June post, Fetterman declared Sinwar and Hamas were responsible for the deaths of many Americans over the years, including the more than 40 Americans slain on October 7th and the murdered American hostages Itay Chen, Gad Haggai, Judy Weinstein Haggai, and Hersh Goldberg Polin,
Austin said in the statement I reject all pressure to push Israel into a ceasefire without Hamas neutralized or their full surrender. They will be held accountable and I fully support it,
declared in an August post But to those who would harm our hostages, I have another message - Israel will hunt you down and bring you to justice. But to those who would harm our hostages, I have another message - Israel will hunt you down and bring you to justice. I also have a message of hope to the people of the region - the axis of terror that Iran built is collapsing before our eyes."
Netanyahu also issued a stern warning, saying Hamas is holding 101 hostages in Gaza who are citizens of 23 countries, citizens of Israel, but citizens of many other countries. Israel is committed to doing everything in our power to bring all of them home. Israel will guarantee the safety of all those who return our hostages,
I don’t think the pain, humiliation and anger of October 7 has ever really gone away,
former Israeli ambassador and government adviser Alon Pinkas told Al Jazeera I know Israel claims to have killed between 14,000 and 22,000 of them, but they don’t really know,
Hamas’s capacity to stage another October 7 has been removed,
There’s no plan, no strategy, nothing,
Pinkas commented of his interactions with officials The group is still staging well-coordinated and well-timed attacks upon the Netzarim Corridor [the heavily fortified strip of land established by the Israeli military that bifurcates Gaza] as well as quickly retaking areas that Israel has previously cleared,
Hamas’s greatest strength lies in its capacity for civil government. Every time it brings out its bulldozers [to clear damage from Israeli assaults]; introduces the police, who restore stability; and produces all the infrastructure of local government, they’re contradicting an Israeli line and, I would say, undermining Israel’s plans to separate Gaza into controllable islands,
Even if Israel did decide to declare victory in Gaza with the death of Sinwar – something that analysts have long predicted – it may not mean the dawning of the ‘day after’,
Jason Burke writes in his analysis The mission ahead of us is still unfinished.”
Once there was confirmation of his identity, Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his government celebrated the death of Sinwar as the “beginning of the end” but made clear that Mastermind of Hamas attacks on Israel is killed by IDF troops
is the Guardian’s lead story today We’ll still have belief,
If assassinations could end the resistance, it would have ended 90 years ago with the martyrdom of Izz al-Din al-Qassam,
said Hamas military spokesperson Abu Obaida in a posting on PalMedia Decapitation rarely works with networked organisations such as Hamas,
said Middle East scholar Andreas Krieg