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		</div><p>A top political leader of Hamas, Khalil al-Hayya, has confirmed the death of the group’s leader, Yahya Sinwar.</p>
<p>Mr al-Hayyaa, in a televised statement, reiterated the Palestinian militant group’s stance that it will not release Israeli hostages captured in the group’s October 7 2023 attack on Israel until there is a ceasefire in the yearlong war in Gaza.</p>
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“Those prisoners will not return to you before the end of the aggression on Gaza and the withdrawal from Gaza,” he said.</p>
<p>Mr al-Hayyaa was Mr Sinwar’s Qatar-based deputy and represented Hamas during several rounds of ceasefire negotiations.</p>
<figure id="attachment_184602" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-184602" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/IMG_6666.webp" alt="" width="640" height="427" class="size-full wp-image-184602" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-184602" class="wp-caption-text">A demonstrator holds a sign during a protest calling for a ceasefire deal and the immediate release of hostages held by Hamas, in Tel Aviv on Thursday</figcaption></figure>
<p>In the statement, Hamas heralded Mr Sinwar as a hero who “ascended as a heroic martyr, advancing and not retreating, brandishing his weapon, engaging and confronting the occupation army at the forefront of the ranks”.</p>
<p>The statement appeared to refer to a video circulating of Mr Sinwar’s last moments, in which he sits on a chair in a badly damaged building, severely wounded and covered in dust.</p>
<p>He then suddenly raises his hand and flings a stick at an approaching Israeli miniature drone in an apparent final act of defiance.</p>
<p>The statement came after the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah vowed on Friday to launch a new phase of fighting against Israel, a day after Israel said its forces in Gaza had killed Mr Sinwar, believed to be the chief architect of last year’s deadly attack on Israel that sparked the multifront war.</p>
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Both Hamas and Hezbollah are backed by Iran, which hailed Mr Sinwar as a martyr who can inspire others in challenging Israel.</p>
<figure id="attachment_184603" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-184603" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/IMG_6667.webp" alt="" width="640" height="427" class="size-full wp-image-184603" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-184603" class="wp-caption-text">Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi posted his comments on X</figcaption></figure>
<p>“We, and countless others around the world, salute his selfless struggle for liberation of the Palestinian people,” Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, wrote on X, formerly Twitter.</p>
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“Martyrs live forever, and the cause for liberation of Palestine from occupation is more alive than ever.”</p>
<p>Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian condemned the killing and said his death will not create a disturbance in Islamic resistance, the state-run IRNA news agency said.</p>
<p>IRNA quoted Mr Pezeshkian as saying: “Martyrdom will not create a disturbance in the Islamic Ummah’s resistance against force and occupation.”</p>
<p>He also expressed condolences to the oppressed people of Gaza and all the freedom-seekers of the world.</p>
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Israel has pledged to destroy Hamas politically in Gaza, and killing Mr Sinwar was a top military priority.</p>
<p>Photos which were apparently taken by Israeli troops at the scene showed the body of a man who appeared to be him, half-buried in rubble and with a gaping wound in his head.</p>
<p>In Israel, families of hostages still held in Gaza demanded the Israeli government use Mr Sinwar’s killing as a way to restart negotiations to bring home their loved ones.</p>
<p>There are about 100 hostages remaining in Gaza, at least 30 of whom Israel says are dead.</p>
<p>“We are at an inflection point where the goals set for the war with Gaza have been achieved, all but the release of the hostages,” Ronen Neutra, father of the Israeli-American hostage Omer Neutra, said in a video statement.</p>
<p>“Sinwar, who was described as a major obstacle to a deal, is no longer alive.”</p>
<p>Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu was planning to convene a special meeting on Friday to discuss hostage negotiations, an Israeli official with knowledge of the negotiations said.</p>
<p>The official spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss confidential information.</p>
<figure id="attachment_184604" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-184604" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/IMG_6668.webp" alt="" width="640" height="427" class="size-full wp-image-184604" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-184604" class="wp-caption-text">US President Joe Biden and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz shake hands after delivering joint statements to the press at the Chancellery in Berlin on Friday</figcaption></figure>
<p>US President Joe Biden reiterated his call for Israel to use the death of Mr Sinwar as an opportunity to move towards peace.</p>
<p>Mr Biden said as he met German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin on Friday that Mr Sinwar’s killing “represents a moment of justice”. He added that Mr Sinwar “had the blood of Americans and Israelis, Palestinians and Germans and so many others on his hands”.</p>
<p>Mr Biden said: “I told the prime minister of Israel yesterday, let’s also make this moment an opportunity to seek a path to peace, a better future in Gaza without Hamas.”</p>
<p>Mr Scholz, also a staunch ally of Israel, said Mr Sinwar’s death hopefully opens “the concrete prospect of a ceasefire in Gaza, of an agreement to release the hostages held by Hamas”.</p>
<p>On Thursday night, Mr Biden said “now’s the time to move on … Move toward a ceasefire in Gaza, make sure that we move in a direction that we’re able to make things better for the whole world.”</p>
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