Day 377 - Special report: Hamas head Yahya Sinwar is dead
The Times of Israel Daily Briefing
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🗓️ 17 October 2024
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Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
Editor David Horovitz joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan on today's special report.
Tonight, Israel announced that IDF troops had killed Hamas terror chief Yahya Sinwar in Gaza on Wednesday in a firefight in Rafah, in southern Gaza.
Sinwar, the architect of the October 7 Hamas invasion and slaughter in southern Israel, was shot dead along with two other terrorists by a force from the 828th Bislamach Brigade.
The terror chief became leader of Hamas after the killing of Ismail Haniyeh in a Tehran blast in July, when he was selected by Hamas’s 50-strong Shura Council, a consultative body composed of officials elected by Hamas members in four chapters: Gaza, the West Bank, the diaspora and security prisoners in Israeli jails.
Horovitz describes what we currently know about Sinwar's killing and the identification of his remains. We learn how Israeli top leadership is responding to Sinwar's death and whether this could be a turning point in the war with Hamas.
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Discussed articles include:
Hamas leader and Oct. 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar killed by IDF troops in Gaza
Yahya Sinwar: Radical Islamist ideologue utterly committed to Israel’s destruction
Full text of Netanyahu’s address after killing of Hamas terror chief Yahya Sinwar
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IMAGE: Yahya Sinwar, Hamas's leader in Gaza, gestures on stage during a rally in Gaza City, on May 24, 2021. (Mahmud Hams/ AFP/ File)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Times of Israel's daily briefing. |
| 0:07.8 | Today's Thursday, October 17th, Day 377 to the war. |
| 0:13.4 | Amanda Borschelle, Dan, here with our editor, David Horowitz. |
| 0:16.4 | Hi, thank you so much for joining me for this special report. |
| 0:19.9 | Thanks, Amanda. |
| 0:20.7 | Hamas Head, Yiches Inouir is dead. |
| 0:23.3 | We'll hear about the circumstances of his killing and the race to secure the identification of his remains. |
| 0:29.6 | We'll learn how Israeli top leadership is responding to the death of the man who masterminded the October 7th invasion of southern Israel. |
| 0:37.2 | And whether this could be a |
| 0:39.1 | massive turning point in the war with Hamas. All this and much, much more when we're back. |
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| 1:38.5 | Tonight, the IDFNY.com. Tonight, the IDF released the names of five soldiers from the Golani Brigade's reconnaissance unit who were killed in southern Lebanon, company commander Major Ophick Bahar from Nestiona, team commander Captain-Ad Simantov from Sofim, |
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