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Yahya Sinwar attends a rally in support of Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque in Gaza City on October 1st 2022
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Hopes of a ceasefire in Gaza after the death of Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas, seemed to fade. Mr Sinwar was the mastermind of the attacks on October 7th 2023 which unleashed the war. He was killed in a firefight with an Israeli patrol in the south of Gaza. Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, said that the conflict was not over.

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