UPI: Hamas leader's body found as peace talks with Israel pick back up

[Dennis Donovan]

UPI - Hamas leader's body found as peace talks with Israel pick back up

May 18, 2025 / 11:09 AM
By Mark Moran

May 18 (UPI) -- Israel reported Sunday it found the body of Hamas' de facto leader, Muhammad Sinwar, in a tunnel in Khan Younis after he was killed in a series of airstrikes last week.

At least 100 people have been killed in the latest series of airstrikes, and Sinwar's body was found as Hamas has offered to release nine hostages in exchange for a 60-day military stand down in an effort to slow down the fighting in the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas.

Sinwar was the younger brother of Yahya Sinwar, the former Hamas leader in Gaza. Another brother, Zakaria Sinwar, was killed in an airstroke Saturday night, other reports claimed. It's the third Sinwar brother to be killed in the ongoing battle.

Israeli forces overtook a hospital in northern Gaza Saturday as an offensive to seize territory on the Gaza Strip continues, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.

Forces seized the Indonesian hospital in Beit Lahia, preventing patients, staff and medical supplies from arriving, the ministry said on Sunday, according to the BBC, leaving the medical facility inoperable.

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[AzTired64]

1. Mixed feeling

What Isreal is doing in Gaza is waging pure war to crush their opponents and colateral damage be dammed is wrong at all levels.

What Hamas is doing by hiding among civilians is wrong at all levels.

Having been a soldier, I understand war is messy and therefore must be avoided, but the loss of these Hamas leaders will only make the world a better place.

[Clouds Passing]

2. Meanwhile the "leader" of the "free world" accepts $400m plane from hams' biggest funder

[sabbat hunter]

3. Both sides

need to have an immediate and unconditional cease fire. Hamas needs to release all the hostages. Israel needs to release from its prisons any Palestinians being held, but not charged.

Bibi doesn't want to do this, because it would probably mean his coalition would collapse, and he would be facing jail time. Hamas won't do it, because, well they are Hamas.