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Clearly there are opportunities for a change in direction, and we would hope that parties would take advantage of that, both in Gaza and in Lebanon,
he said, without directly addressing Netanyahu's remarks Sinwar's death also provides an extraordinary opportunity to achieve a lasting ceasefire, to end this awful war, and to rush humanitarian aid into Gaza,
Austin told a press conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels They have been through hell, and so have their families,
Mohammed Sinwar is the head of the field battle, but he will not be Sinwar’s heir as head of the political bureau,
Hamas will not move urgently at the present time to choose a head of the political bureau,
Thabet al-Amour, a political analyst in Gaza, said Hamas each time became stronger and more popular, and these leaders became an icon for future generations,
Different cells of Hamas will continue fighting, but at the core of the movement, there's a vacuum there, and that will make it very difficult to coordinate,
Hamas's history... is a history of Israel assassinating its leaders. Yahya Sinwar joins the list,
This is a generation that has lost all hope... certainly in Gaza. If you have no hope, you've got nothing and nowhere to go, you've got nothing to lose,
The answer is diplomacy, and we must make the most of this moment. What is needed now is a ceasefire in Gaza, the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages, immediate access for humanitarian aid and a return to the path towards the two-state solution as the only way to deliver long-term peace and security,
The IDF has repeatedly targeted our positions, endangering the safety of our troops, in addition to Hezbollah launching rockets toward Israel from near our positions, which also puts our peacekeepers in danger,
Tenenti told a UN news briefing in Geneva by video We are continuing Hamas’s path,
Khalil al-Hayya, Sinwar’s deputy said from exile in Qatar, adding I think the problem of aid diversion will continue, regardless of Sinwar meeting his end,
Jonathan Schanzer, senior vice president for research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told the Washington Examiner Hamas fighters have been diverting aid for their own personal profit, while also filling Hamas’s coffers and warehouses. I don’t see that ending any time soon, no matter who the next leader may be. This will likely continue if and when Hamas collapses entirely,
Now is the time to move on,
Biden told reporters in Berlin after arriving for a meeting with European leaders Hamas will recover by drawing upon a new generation of leaders, redeveloping its military and technological capacity and appealing to young Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank who have been brutalized by the conflict with Israel,
Hamas is certainly weakened but Sinwar's death is not a death blow for the militia,
Once the responsibility for truce negotiations is transferred to Hamas leaders abroad, these negotiations will be subject to external calculations as well, because all these leaders abroad are influenced by the capitals in which they are located, and it is perhaps through these capitals that Hamas can make concessions and initiate a new policy,
Instead of capitalizing on Israel's tactical success to declare victory in Gaza, push for a cease-fire that could also end hostilities in Lebanon, and negotiate a prisoner exchange that would secure the release of the 101 remaining Hamas-held hostages, Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu insisted the war would continue until the Israeli military liberated the captives,
he wrote in his latest post on his political blog, ... The Turbulent World." Hamas will continue until the establishment of the Palestinian state on all Palestinian soil with Jerusalem as its capital,
he declared, as quoted by Al Jazeera