Israel confirms killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Yahya Sinwar, who topped Israel's most-wanted list, was a key figure believed to have been behind the 7 October attacks. The Israeli Defence Force tells us how the operation was carried out. Also in the programme: With new questions about the likelihood of a hostage deal, we speak to one man whose brother-in-law is still being held captive; and a Palestinian journalist tells us about the mood in Gaza after Sinwar's killing. (Photo: Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar attends a press conference after Hamas announced his victory in Gaza, 10th March, 2021. Credit: Mohammed Sabar/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to News Hour live from the BBC World Service in London. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm Rebecca Kessby. |
| 0:10.0 | There is really only one story for the program today and that is the killing of the leader of |
| 0:15.9 | Hamas in Gaza, Yajya Sinwa. His death is being described as a seismic blow to Hamas. |
| 0:22.2 | The group considered by many Western states. as a on October the 7th last year that sparked the conflict in Gaza. |
| 0:36.0 | Sinwa himself is widely accepted as the mastermind of that plan. |
| 0:41.0 | Well since that moment last year the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu |
| 0:46.0 | has promised to eradicate Hamas. |
| 0:48.0 | So has Hamas now been decapitated beyond effectiveness is this a new opportunity to end the war |
| 0:56.4 | or do the events of today herald a new potentially dangerous phase in this conflict |
| 1:02.0 | as news of his killing broke, demonstrators in Tel Aviv in Israel took to the streets. They were calling for the release of the remaining Israeli hostages. |
| 1:19.1 | One banner read Synwa is dead, end the war. The news that Yarya |
| 1:23.9 | Sinwa might have been killed began to emerge earlier in the day. |
| 1:27.6 | DNA testing was carried out to confirm his identity. |
| 1:31.0 | Then within the past couple of hours or so, his death was announced by the Israeli government. |
| 1:36.0 | Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the nation. |
| 1:40.0 | I stand before you today to announce that Yaya Sinwa has been eliminated. |
| 1:48.0 | He who carried out the waste massacre in our people's history since the Holocaust, |
| 1:52.0 | the arch-terrorist who murdered |
| 1:54.2 | thousands of Israelis and kidnapped hundreds of our citizens was killed today by our |
| 1:58.8 | heroic soldiers. And today, as we promised to do, we settled the score with him. |
| 2:04.0 | Today, evil has suffered a severe blow, but the task before us is still not complete. |
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