Israeli officials said Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was killed by Israel Defense Forces in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday. Hamas has not commented publicly on the reports.

Sinwar was the mastermind of the Oct. 7 terror attacks, which killed 1,200 people and set off Israel’s year-long war against Hamas in Gaza. Israel has made killing him a key objective, and may now be more willing to scale back its military operations in Gaza.

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      15 days ago

      No, that’s on israel that actually does not care about the hostages and intentionally torpedoed all negotiations and even killed some of them themselves.

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      hamas doesn’t know if they’re alive or dead either, considering their command structure is dead

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        They don’t know because they didn’t care.

        It was just terror factor for them, they didn’t care what happened, who got hurt, just brutality for brutality’s sake.

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          i’m pretty sure they made demands asking for palestinians to be released from israeli prisons and I’m pretty sure israel rejected those demands

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              do you believe hamas members are non-human? because it feels like you’re trying to convince me they are non-human