{"id":115830,"date":"2024-10-19T05:18:52","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T22:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=115830"},"modified":"2024-10-19T05:18:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T22:18:52","slug":"hamas-leader-yahya-sinwar-killed-by-gunshot-israeli-autopsy-finds-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=115830","title":{"rendered":"Hamas Leader Yahya Sinwar Killed by Gunshot, Israeli Autopsy Finds: Live Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>He was there from the early days of Hamas, rose through the ranks to lead the organization and equipped it for the deadliest assault on Israel in its history.<\/p>\n<p>And now, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/17\/world\/middleeast\/yahya-sinwar-dead.html\" title=\"\">Yahya Sinwar is dead<\/a>, depriving the militant group of a ruthless, intelligent leader and raising questions about what direction its battered remnants will take in their fight against Israel.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Sinwar\u2019s killing was a powerful blow to a violent organization that had already been gravely damaged by a year of brutal combat with Israel. Though he was only the latest senior leader to be killed since the war began, few experts expect Hamas to collapse. Still, the men\u2019s elimination could cause a leadership vacuum and more chaos in its ranks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Among the senior figures killed since January are <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/01\/02\/world\/middleeast\/israel-hamas-leader-war.html\" title=\"\">Saleh al-Arouri<\/a>, a key liaison with Iran and Hezbollah in Lebanon; <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/08\/01\/world\/middleeast\/israel-hamas-muhammad-deif.html\" title=\"\">Muhammad Deif<\/a>, the shadowy head of Hamas\u2019s military wing, who Israel said was killed in July; and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/08\/01\/world\/middleeast\/how-hamas-leader-haniyeh-killed-iran-bomb.html\" title=\"\">Ismael Haniyeh<\/a>, who headed its political office in Qatar, making him central to cease-fire negotiations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Sinwar was loathed by Israelis for starting the war and taking Israeli hostages, and resented by many Gazans who blamed him for the extensive suffering the conflict has brought to their lives. But he was revered by Hamas loyalists for helping plot the assault on Israel last October that left 1,200 people dead and 250 others dragged back to Gaza as hostages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">That made him an \u201ciconic figure\u201d among the group\u2019s members, and a hard one to replace, said Fuad Khuffash, a Palestinian analyst close to Hamas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cSinwar was an extremely important man in the movement,\u201d Mr. Khuffash said. \u201cHis assassination is no easy matter. But it won\u2019t make Hamas retreat and surrender.\u201d<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"imageblock-wrapper\">\n<figure class=\"img-sz-medium css-d754w4 e1g7ppur0\" aria-label=\"media\" role=\"group\"><figcaption data-testid=\"photoviewer-children-caption\" class=\"css-gbc9ki ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-jevhma e13ogyst0\">Sealing a body bag at Kfar Aza, in Israel, three days after the Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7, 2023.<\/span><span class=\"css-1u46b97 e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Israel has assassinated dozens of Hamas leaders and killed many thousands of its fighters since the group was founded in the 1980s with the goal of destroying Israel and replacing it with an Islamist, Palestinian state. Those blows have never prevented Hamas from rebounding \u2014 often with even greater ferocity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Before the Gaza war began last October, Hamas was stronger and more institutionalized than ever before. It served as the de facto government for Gaza\u2019s 2.2 million people, wielding power over their lives, collecting fees and gathering resources. That included at some points <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/12\/10\/world\/middleeast\/israel-qatar-money-prop-up-hamas.html\" title=\"\">about $30 million monthly from Qatar<\/a> that was intended to help keep Gaza\u2019s government functioning. Hamas\u2019s position in turn helped it build its military wing, which boasted many thousands of fighters and arsenals of rockets and other weapons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Israel responded to Hamas\u2019s assault with a devastating air campaign and ground invasion that has left vast portions of Gaza in ruins and killed more than 42,000 people, according to the Gaza health authorities. That figure does not differentiate between fighters and civilians, but Israel claims to have largely gutted the organization, killing large numbers of its combatants and blowing up many of the tunnels they use to covertly move around the territory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">While Israel has not laid out a clear plan for how the war will end or who will run Gaza afterward, it has vowed to prevent Hamas from resuming any role in governance. Yet Hamas has continued to fight, frequently popping back up and launching new attacks in areas that Israel claimed to have cleared.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cHamas has been fighting this war for a year in a very closed space, so it is already decentralized to the limit, fighting in very small units of a dozen or less fighters who have a lot of autonomy,\u201d said Ramzy Mardini, an associate at the Pearson Institute at the University of Chicago who studies rebellions and civil wars.<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"imageblock-wrapper\">\n<figure class=\"img-sz-medium css-d754w4 e1g7ppur0\" aria-label=\"media\" role=\"group\"><figcaption data-testid=\"photoviewer-children-caption\" class=\"css-gbc9ki ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-jevhma e13ogyst0\">Yahya Sinwar, newly released from an Israeli prison, on a bus bound for Gaza in 2011.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Sinwar\u2019s death is unlikely to affect those operations, he said, since he had lost the ability to direct them, anyway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">But Mr. Sinwar was key to Hamas\u2019s top-level decisions, such as whether to agree to a cease-fire, and officials involved in those talks considered him a hard-liner who was less likely to compromise than his comrades outside Gaza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">It was unclear on Friday <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/17\/world\/middleeast\/hamas-leadership-sinwar-death.html\" title=\"\">when Hamas will announce a successor<\/a>, or how that transition will affect the negotiating stance of a group that has long been run by a combination of political officials based in Qatar and political and military leaders in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">In Gaza, Mr. Sinwar might be replaced by his brother Mohammad, a senior figure in the group\u2019s military wing, according to a Western diplomat familiar with Hamas. His logical successor as the head of Hamas\u2019s political office would be Khalil al-Hayya, Mr. Sinwar\u2019s deputy, who is based in Qatar, the diplomat said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Other prominent remaining Hamas figures include Khaled Meshal and Mousa Abu Marzouk, both former heads of the political office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">It is also possible that Mr. Sinwar\u2019s death will cause chaos inside the organization, making it unclear who has the ability to negotiate on Hamas\u2019s behalf and leaving no one with the stature needed to ensure the compliance of Gaza\u2019s armed groups with any agreement that is reached.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Hamas has never claimed the allegiances of a majority of Palestinians, and many in Gaza celebrated the news of Mr. Sinwar\u2019s death, blaming him for a war that has caused them such suffering.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">But Hamas\u2019s message of violent resistance to Israel has long found its recruits among those who have lost the most in the conflict: Palestinian refugees forced into permanent exile with the creation of Israel and their descendants; people who have lost homes and loved ones to Israeli bombs; and young men with no prospects for better lives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">The possibility of any form of statehood or self-determination for Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza appears more remote now than it has in many years. And the Gaza war \u2014 by killing, wounding, orphaning and displacing so many people \u2014 has increased hatred of Israel among Palestinians and the despair that direct recruits to groups like Hamas, no matter who leads them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe root of the problem is not Sinwar or even Hamas,\u201d said Hassan Abu Haniyeh, an expert on militant groups at the Politics and Society Institute in Jordan. \u201cThe problem is the next day. What are you going to do? You can kill all of Hamas, but what are you going to do on the day after?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-1smqmx3 etfikam0\">Aaron Boxerman<!-- --> contributed reporting from Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2024\/10\/18\/world\/israel-hamas-yahya-sinwar-news\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He was there from the early days of Hamas, rose through the ranks to lead the organization and equipped it for the deadliest assault on Israel in its history. 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