Hamas and Hezbollah are both without leaders. What now?
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🗓️ 17 October 2024
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Sinwar came to power in the wake of the death of hiss predecessor, as well as the head of Hamas's military wing – leaving him ss the leading figure of the militant group.
What will Sinwar's death mean for Hamas and for Israel's war in Gaza ?
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| 0:00.0 | Yaya Senoir, the leader of Hamas, and the man believed to be behind the October 7th attacks against Israel, is dead. |
| 0:07.0 | Israeli officials announced on Thursday that he was killed by its military in Gaza. Senwar was Israel's number one most wanted man in Gaza. He was |
| 0:14.0 | his number one most wanted man in Gaza. |
| 0:17.0 | He was calling the shots in this war. He approved a hostage release deal back in |
| 0:21.1 | November and he was the man who Israel was hoping would agree |
| 0:26.4 | to a ceasefire deal Israel and many all around the world he was the man that's |
| 0:32.2 | nPRs Daniel Est, reporting from Tel Aviv on Thursday. |
| 0:35.8 | Since the beginning of the war, Senoir had alluded capture, possibly in the labyrinth of tunnels |
| 0:41.4 | Hamas built under Gaza. He was seen as a hardliner within |
| 0:44.9 | Hamas and considered less likely to reach a ceasefire deal with Israel. |
| 0:49.2 | The fury at Israel is is very clear. |
| 0:53.0 | David Remnick profiled the Hamas leader in the New Yorker earlier this year and he spoke to NPR about |
| 0:59.0 | Senoir's ideology. |
| 1:01.0 | Laid out in a semi-autobiographical novel, |
| 1:03.8 | Senwar wrote while in an Israeli prison. |
| 1:06.4 | There's certainly nothing having to do with a two-state solution. |
| 1:09.0 | It is fueled by the absolute conviction that there can be no Israeli state and there can be no |
| 1:19.2 | compromise. |
| 1:20.2 | Israel killed Senoir's predecessor as well as the head of Hamas's military wing, |
| 1:25.0 | leaving Senoir as the leading figure of the militant group. |
| 1:28.0 | Consider this. |
| 1:30.0 | What will Senoir's death mean for Hamas and for Israel's war in Gaza? |
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