In 2013, he was elected a member of Hamas's Political Bureau in the Gaza Strip, before becoming its head in 2017. Sinwar's younger brother Mohammed also went on to play an active role in Hamas. He claimed to have survived several Israeli assassination attempts before being pronounced dead ...
Image:Pro-Hamas rally pledging allegiance to Sinwar in Khan Younis in May 2022. Pic: AP Testimonies from people on the ground in Gaza, however, suggest his violent methods have left many of them disillusioned with Hamas. With Israel's promise to destroy Hamas and all of its leaders, Dr B...
GAZA, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) -- The Israel Defense Forces and the Israel Security Agency jointly confirmed Thursday that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was killed in the Gaza Strip by Israeli soldiers on Wednesday. No official confirmation has been made by Hamas. Sinwar was born in October 1962 in th...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Hamas-led militants released eight hostages on Thursday after more than 15 months in captivity, including an Israeli soldier, bringing to 15 the number of captives freed since thestart of a ceasefire in Gazamore than a week ago. Agam Berger, 20, was a...
From the Israeli perspective, killing Hamas leaders inside Gaza does not "cause a diplomatic crisis" with countries such as Qatar hosting its leaders abroad, adds Dr Ahron Bregman, senior teaching fellow in the Arab-Israeli conflict at King's College London and former Israeli army major. ...
He is widely believed to be behind the unprecedented 2016 killing of another top Hamas commander, Mahmoud Ishtewi, in an internal power struggle. He also married after his release. In 2017, he was elected head of Hamas’ political bureau in Gaza. Sinwar worked with Haniyeh to realign the ...
Israel's neighbors have warned that an invasion and ground war would bring many more civilian casualties and displace even more of Gaza's roughly 2.3 million people from their homes, but there's another concern: If or when Hamas is removed from power in Gaza, who or what will replace it?
Months after Hamas attackers killed 1,200 people, a string of Israeli farming communities they targeted just across the border fence with Gaza remain all but empty.
He was also viewed as a pragmatic political leader by some: In 2017, Hamas elected Sinwar as the political chief of its main decision-making body, the Politburo, in Gaza. Sinwar was born in a refugee camp in 1962 in Khan Younis, southern Gaza. His family was displaced from the ...
He called the contention by some Republicans that the more than half a million Democrats who voted uncommitted in presidential primaries this year were “pro-Hamas” was “total bullshit.” Sherman noted there was a sizable segment of Democrats who voted uncommitted in 2012 and alleged that...