Welcome to the news hour. If the US wants to use the death of Hamas leader

Yachya Sinwar as an opportunity for peace, the warring sides today are

publicly resisting. Hamas vowed to keep fighting.

Lebanese Hezbollah announced a new phase of its war,

and Israel announced more military deployments

into northern Gaza and the Israeli border with Lebanon.

Nick Schifran starts our coverage.

Today in Han Yunus in a blown out mosque,

Palestinians from Yaya Sinwar's hometown

mourn the death of a man they called a martyr.

His final act, throwing a stick at an Israeli drone,

before an Israeli tank seen in new footage released today fired and killed him. But one day after it announced his death, the Israeli military

also announced it expanded operational activity in northern Gaza. Much of Hamas

's leadership is dead, but Hamas fighters continue their attacks.

And today the group promised to keep it up and not give up.

It's a hundred Israeli hostages without a permanent ceasefire, said Deputy Hamas Chief Haleil al-Aya.

Those prisoners will not return to you until the aggression on our people in Gaza is

stopped and full withdrawal from it as well as the release of our heroes

the prisoners from the occupation jails and we will continue with Hamas's path.

And Israel vowed to continue what it called its limited operation in southern Lebanon,

calling up another reserve brigade, said Israel's top general Herzi Halavi.

We are very determined to strike Hezbollah as hard as possible and we are making sure that every

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