Top militant has been in hiding in Gaza, defying Israeli attempts to kill him since start of current conflict
The new leader of Hamas, Yahya Sinwar, attending a rally in support of Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque in Gaza City on October 1st, 2022.
News of the appointment was greeted with a salvo of rockets from Gaza launched by militants still fighting Israeli troops in the besieged enclave.Israeli rights group claims Palestinian prisoners are subjected to systematic abuseSinwar, who has spent half his adult life in Israeli prisons, was the most powerful Hamas leader left alive following the assassination of Haniyeh, which has left the region on the brink of a wider regional conflict after Iran vowed harsh retaliation.
He was formerly head of the Al-Majd security apparatus which tracked, killed and punished Palestinians accused of collaborating with Israel’s secret service before he was jailed.Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said Hizbullah would wait for the right moment to respond but did not hint on its form or timing. All international attempts at persuading Hizbullah not to retaliate were futile, he said.
The strike that killed Shukr on July 30th was the second time Israel had struck the southern suburbs in 10 months of hostilities between Hizbullah and Israel that are taking place in parallel with the war in Gaza between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas. Israeli medical officials said seven people with injuries were evacuated to hospital to the south of the coastal city of Nahariya, one in critical condition.
In Gaza, Israeli forces killed 45 Palestinian fighters over the past day, the Israeli military said on Tuesday, after heavy fighting in which Hamas said it destroyed two armoured personnel carriers during an ambush near the city of Rafah.
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