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Live Updates: Israel confirms killing Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar
The Israeli military confirmed on Thursday it has killed Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar in Gaza. Israel said that three Hamas fighters were killed in a ground operation in southern Gaza and used dental images and DNA testing to confirm that one of them was Sinwar.
The first confirmation came from Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz in a message to other foreign ministers. The Israeli military confirmed the news shortly afterward, writing on the social media platform X, "Eliminated: Yahya Sinwar."
Sinwar, who headed Hamas' political bureau after Ismail Haniyeh was killed in August, had repeatedly been a target of the Israeli military and was briefly thought to be dead in early October after weeks of silence.
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