Hamas Leader Yahya Sinwar Alive, Rejecting Ceasefire Deal: US

Gaza: As tensions mount and a war-like situation intensifies in the Middle East, there were reports that Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas Chief has been eliminated. In a latest, US officials have claimed that Yahya Sinwar is alive and has rejected ceasefire deal.

Hamas Chief Yahya Sinwar Alive, Rejecting Ceasefire Deal: US

A post on social media platform ‘X’ (formerly known as Twitter), Israel War Room has said that as per NY Times, US officials have claimed that Hamas Leader Yahya Sinwar is alive and has also been rejecting ceasefire deal.

The post says, “U.S. officials told @nytimes that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar is alive and rejecting any ceasefire deal, instead hoping for a regional war to force Israel to scale back operations in Gaza. Officials say Hamas “has shown no desire at all to engage in talks,” according to NYT.”

Hamas Leader Saeed Atallah Ali Killed

In another related news, an Israeli strike on a refugee camp in north Lebanon has killed Hamas official Saeed Atallah Ali and his family, the militant group said Saturday. The early morning strike came a day after another Israeli airstrike cut off a main highway linking Lebanon with Syria, leaving two huge craters on either side of the road. Israel began a ground incursion Tuesday into Lebanon against the Hezbollah militant group. The Israeli military said nine soldiers have died in the conflict in southern Lebanon.

Hamas said in a statement that the early Saturday strike on the Beddawi refugee camp struck the home of Saeed Atallah Ali, an official with Hamas’s military wing, the Qassam Brigades. Ali’s wife, Shaymaa Azzam, and their two daughters, Zeinab and Fatima — whom the statement described as children — were also killed in the attack.

Israel and Hezbollah have traded fire across the Lebanon border almost daily since the day after Hamas’ cross-border attack on Oct. 7, 2023, which killed 1,200 Israelis and took 250 others hostage. Israel declared war on the Hamas militant group in the Gaza Strip in response. As the Israel-Hamas war reaches the one-year mark, more than 41,000 Palestinians have been killed in the territory, and just over half the dead have been women and children, according to local health officials. Nearly 2,000 people have been killed in Lebanon since then, most of them since Sept. 23, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.

(Inputs from AP)