{"id":10778,"date":"2024-10-18T19:51:13","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T14:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=10778"},"modified":"2024-10-18T19:51:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T14:06:13","slug":"hamas-confirms-death-of-leader-yahya-sinwar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/hamas-confirms-death-of-leader-yahya-sinwar\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamas confirms death of leader Yahya Sinwar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Palestinian militant group Hamas on Friday confirmed its leader Yahya Sinwar had been killed by the Israeli military in Gaza, a day after Israel announced his death.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We mourn the great leader, the martyred brother, Yahya Sinwar, Abu Ibrahim,&#8221; Qatar-based Hamas official Khalil al-Hayya said in a recorded video statement broadcast by Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n<p>Sinwar became Israel&#8217;s most wanted man after the October 7, 2023 attack, the deadliest in Israeli history.<\/p>\n<p>In his statement, Hayya said Hamas would not release the hostages it seized from Israel during the attack until the war in Gaza ends.<\/p>\n<p>The hostages &#8220;will not return&#8230; unless the aggression against our people in Gaza stops,&#8221; the senior Hamas official said, as he called on Israel to withdraw from Gaza and release Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails.<\/p>\n<p>Hayya said the militant group would take strength from Sinwar&#8217;s killing, which he said has set him among &#8220;the leaders and symbols of the movement who preceded him&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palestinian militant group Hamas on Friday confirmed its leader Yahya Sinwar had been killed by the Israeli military in Gaza, a day after Israel announced his death. &#8220;We mourn the great leader, the martyred brother, Yahya Sinwar, Abu Ibrahim,&#8221; Qatar-based Hamas official Khalil al-Hayya said in a recorded video statement broadcast by Al Jazeera. Sinwar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10779,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10778\/revisions\/10779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}