The Latest Breaking News from Yahya Sinwar

Israel-Hamas Conflict: Israeli Army Encircling Hamas' Gaza Leader's House; Houthi Official Issues Stark Warning

On Day 62 of the Israel-Hamas conflict, Israeli troops have advanced deeper into Khan Yunis, the hometown of the terror group's top leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar.

International Business Times · Dec 7, 2023

🔴 Live: Fighting rages across Gaza as Israel-Hamas war enters third month

Heavy urban combat raged throughout Gaza on Thursday with some of the war’s most intensive fighting so far reported in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the north and Khan Younis in the south. Aid groups warned that Gazans are running out of places to flee as Israeli strikes were also…

France 24 · Dec 7, 2023

Israel plans to destroy Hamas tunnels by flooding them with seawater

Israel is planning on forcing Hamas to abandon its vast tunnel network beneath Gaza by flooding them with seawater, US officials have said.

The Independent UK · Dec 6, 2023

'How Are You Not Ashamed?' Elderly Hostage Told Hamas Leader: Grandson

After Hamas gunmen stormed into 85-year-old Yocheved Lifshitz's house and shot her husband in the hand, they threw her on a motorbike and dragged her off to a tunnel network beneath Gaza, her grandson Daniel says.

International Business Times · Dec 1, 2023

Gaza war: what do we know about the hostage-prisoner exchanges and are they likely to resume?

During the seven-day truce agreed between Israel and Hamas, seven exchanges were made of hostages held by Hamas for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. But on November 30, the two sides failed to reach an agreement on the eighth exchange and there has since been a resumption of the fighting…

The Conversation · Dec 1, 2023

How strong is Hamas and could there be another ceasefire in Gaza?

As fighting resumes, we look at the capabilities of the Palestinian militant group and who controls it

The Guardian - UK · Dec 1, 2023

Israeli hostage, 85, told Hamas chief he should be ‘ashamed of himself’

Peace activist Yocheved Lifshitz describes meeting Yahya Sinwar in Gaza tunnel network where she was held captive

The Guardian - UK · Nov 29, 2023

Hostage talks show a battered Hamas is far from down and out

The militant group may be playing the long game, hoping to weaken Israel while building antipathy against it

The Guardian - UK · Nov 28, 2023

OPINION - Ukraine, Gaza, and worldwide political chaos: we are entering the age of wicked problems

The news from home and abroad seems beset with what policy wonks call wicked problems. These are problems “difficult or impossible to solve,” says the dictionary definition, “because of incomplete, contradictory and changing requirements that are often difficult to recognize.”

Evening Standard · Nov 27, 2023

Israelis and Palestinians can no longer avoid a fateful choice about their future

Breaking the cycle of unresolved conflicts will entail great risks, but it’s our only hope

The Guardian - UK · Nov 26, 2023