Hamas vowed on Friday it would not release the hostages it seized during its Oct. 7 attack on Israel until the Gaza war ends, as it mourned the death of its leader Yahya Sinwar.
As Hamas official Khalil al-Hayya mourned Sinwar in a video statement on Friday, he reiterated the Palestinian group's position that no hostages would be released "unless the aggression against our people in Gaza stops."
And Israeli forces pummelled Gaza with air strikes on Friday, with rescuers recovering the bodies of three Palestinian children from the rubble of their home in the north of the territory, according to Gaza's civil defense agency.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Sinwar's killing an "important landmark in the decline of the evil rule of Hamas."
He added that while it did not spell the end of the war, it was "the beginning of the end."
Hamas vowed on Friday it would not release the hostages it seized during its Oct. 7 attack on Israel until the Gaza war ends, as it mourned the death of its leader Yahya Sinwar.
As Hamas official Khalil al-Hayya mourned Sinwar in a video statement on Friday, he reiterated the Palestinian group's position that no hostages would be released "unless the aggression against our people in Gaza stops."
And Israeli forces pummelled Gaza with air strikes on Friday, with rescuers recovering the bodies of three Palestinian children from the rubble of their home in the north of the territory, according to Gaza's civil defense agency.
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