SvennoJ 5 hours ago
Main points on October 17
- The Israeli army says its forces killed Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar in an operation in southern Gaza on Wednesday. Hamas has not commented on Sinwar’s alleged death.
- The Israeli military released a video purporting to show Sinwar in his last moments – his face wrapped in a scarf and his hand wounded as he throws a stick at a drone trying to down it.
- Prime Minister Netanyahu has said Sinwar’s killing is “not the end of the war in Gaza”, but “the beginning of the end”, as he and President Biden agree there’s now an opportunity to secure the release of captives.
- Israel’s assault on Gaza continues, with at least 28 Palestinians killed and 160 wounded in an attack on a UN school sheltering displaced people in northern Jabalia.
- At least two people have been killed and nine injured in Yammoune village in the Baalbek region as Israel’s assault on Lebanon continues, while Israel’s army has announced the death of five soldiers in the country’s south.
