- Title: Sinwar's death could offer 'off-ramp' to conflict - Middle East Security analyst
- Date: 17th October 2024
- Summary: KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA (FILE - OCTOBER 19, 2011) (REUTERS) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) WELCOME BANNER FOR YAHYA SINWAR AFTER RELEASE FROM ISRAELI PRISON SINWAR BEING GREETED GAZA CITY, GAZA (FILE - MARCH 25, 2017) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF HAMAS LEADERS ISMAIL HANIYEH AND YAHYA SINWAR WALKING WITH CROWD IN FUNERAL FOR SENIOR HAMAS MILITANT
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- Keywords: Gaza Hamas Israel Middle East Netanyahu Sinwar war
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- Story Text: Middle East Security expert Jonathan Land told Reuters on Thursday (October 17) that the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar could offer an "off-ramp" to the current crisis.
"It is quite possible that we take this moment as an inflection point," said Land, Senior Fellow and Director of Middle East Security at the Center for a New American Future (CNAS). “Many are hopeful that with Sinwar out of the way, new leadership is going to want to find a way to end this conflict," he said.
Israel said on Thursday that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, a mastermind of the Oct. 7, 2023 attack that triggered the Gaza war, had been killed by Israeli forces in the Palestinian enclave. The Israeli military said it had killed Sinwar in an operation in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday (October 16).
His killing marks a huge success for Israel and a pivotal event in the year-long conflict. There are a number of possible scenarios for what happens next, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the war would go on. There was no immediate comment from Hamas.
Sinwar, who was named as the overall leader of Hamas following the assassination of political chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran in July, was believed to have been hiding in the warren of tunnels Hamas has built under Gaza over the past two decades.
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