Israel celebrates the assassination of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar. In an address to the nation, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced “the demise of the evil rule of Hamas” in the Gaza Strip. He addressed the Palestinians with these words: “This is the beginning of the day after Hamas and an opportunity for you, residents of the Gaza Strip, to free yourselves from their oppressive rule.”
‘Sinwar has destroyed your lives. He told you he was a lion, but in reality he hid in a dark cave – and he was eliminated when he ran away in fear from our soldiers,” the Israeli leader said in his video message (see below).
Offer to Hamas fighters
In his address to the hostage takers in the Gaza Strip, the head of government said: “Whoever puts down their weapons and returns the hostages, we will enable them to get out and survive. At the same time he threatened that they would settle.” the score” with anyone who takes the hostages causing damage. The war is not over yet. “We will continue with full force until our hostages return home,” the 74-year-old said.
There is now the opportunity for a ‘day after’ in Gaza without Hamas in power and for a political solution that offers a better future for both Israelis and Palestinians, according to a statement from US President Joe Biden who was on his way to Germany. Sinwar’s death marks “a good day for Israel, for the United States and for the world,” Biden continued. Vice President Kamala Harris also said there is now “an opportunity to finally end the war in the Gaza Strip.” And it must end in such a way “that Israel is safe, the hostages are released and the suffering in the Gaza Strip ends.”
NATO Secretary General: “I will not miss Sinwar”
Sinwar is seen as the architect of the terrorist attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said in the evening at a press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. If he died, he wouldn’t miss him personally.
“Sinwar was a brutal murderer and terrorist who wanted to destroy Israel and its people,” said German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock. “As the mastermind of the terror on October 7, he brought the deaths of thousands of people and immense suffering to an entire region.” She demanded that Hamas release all hostages and lay down their weapons.
Is Hamas now taking revenge on the hostages?
The fate of the approximately one hundred hostages still in the hands of Hamas is in fact completely uncertain. Efforts to free them are now likely to become even more difficult. Relatives of those kidnapped now fear that Hamas fighters will retaliate and kill hostages.
Source: Krone
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