“ 'To the people of Gaza, I have a simple message,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement. “This war can end tomorrow. “It can end if Hamas lays down its arms and returns our hostages. Israel will guarantee the safety of all those who return our hostages,” Netanyahu added." . . .
"An Israeli drone captured Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar’s last minutes alive — as the Oct. 7 mastermind tossed a piece of wood in a futile attempt to take out the device before he was killed, officials said.
"Shocking footage shows the moment a drone is deployed to check a building in Rafah that a group of IDF soldiers hit on Thursday.
"An injured Sinwar, who had his face covered and appeared be missing his right hand, could be seen sitting alone on a chair in the destroyed building, with the IDF soldiers unaware that they were seeing the very man they had been hunting since he ordered the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack on the Jewish state.
"When Sinwar finally notices the drone hovering just a few feet from him, he struggles, using his left hand, to fling an object at the UAV in a last-ditch effort to keep his whereabouts hidden.
" 'The soldiers then ordered a second strike on the building, killing Sinwar and two other Hamas terrorists who were traveling with him." After recovering the body and comparing it to the DNA samples the Israeli military retrieved from Sinwar during his time as a prisoner, officials confirmed the man killed in the strike was the terror chief.
"IDF spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari told reporters that Sinwar had likely been shot in his hand and taken refuge in the building when it was hit by the Israeli troops.". . . More text and photos with video.
From Oct 17th:"I try not to rejoice when people I don’t like die because life is precious. However, I also believe that evil people have forfeited that consideration—and Yahya Sinwar was one of the most evil people in the world. So, without any sense of moral failing, I am celebrating reports that Sinwar is dead. Even better, if he is indeed gone, Israel killed this foul human being without touching the phalanx of hostages with which Sinwar was said to have surrounded himself." Andrea Widburg
Writer Michael Brown saw things Biblically: The Death of Sinwar on the First Day of Tabernacles . . ."There were also unconfirmed reports that he had sometimes dressed as a woman and walked the streets of Gaza, allegedly being sighted or even photographed, but none of that was confirmed.
"The idea that he would be out in the open, engaging in a firefight together with other Hamas terrorists is almost unimaginable, yet that’s exactly what happened.
"It reminded me immediately of the biblical account of the death of Ahab, a wicked Israelite king who went into battle without his royal robes, not wanting to draw attention to himself. “But someone drew his bow at random and hit the king of Israel between the sections of his armor” (1 Kings 22:34). Within hours, the king was dead.
"The act was seemingly random, but since Ahab was destined to die under divine judgment, the arrow was actually guided by another hand. Is that what happened to Sinwar in Gaza?
"Of course, the death of this mass murderer does not bring back any of the Israelis killed on or since October 7 (including the hundreds of IDF soldiers). It does not assuage the pain of these agonizing, life-wrenching losses. Nor does it bring back any of the thousands who have died in Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza." . . .
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