High civilian casualties would add to the worldwide pressure on Israel to stop the war, Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar said.
Yahya Sinwar © TOI
High civilian casualties would add to the worldwide pressure on Israel to stop the war, Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar said in a message to the terror groups senior officials in Qatar, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday after the humanitarian crisis and the scale of destruction in Gaza strained Israel’s relations with the U.S. and other countries around the world.
Since the beginning of the conflict, the Hamas has been publishing the number of casualties, both dead and wounded. These figures are unverifiable and vastly exaggerated for propaganda purposes.
By Hassan Hiktar
Joe Biden is expected to use Israel’s killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar to pressure Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to wind down the war in Gaza, but in the waning months of his term the U.S. president may lack leverage to bend the Israeli leader to his will.
Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, mastermind of the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that triggered the Gaza war, was killed on Thursday, Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said.
Israel said on Thursday that Yahya Sinwar, the overall leader of Hamas and the architect of the Palestinian group's Oct. 7, 2023 attacks on Israeli soil, had been killed.
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