US President Joe Biden said on Thursday that the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar by Israeli troops was ‘a good day for Israel, America and the world’.
Biden said Sinwar’s death was an “opportunity” for Hamas to free Israeli hostages and end the year-long war in Gaza.
At the same time, Democrat Party candidate for US President Kamala Harris also termed Sinwar’s death as an opportunity to end the war in Gaza. In a statement, Biden compared the incident to the sentiment felt in America after the killing of al-Qaeda terrorist Osama bin Laden.
Laden was accused of the attacks on America on September 11, 2001. Biden said that the death of the mastermind of the attack on Israel on October 7, 2023 once again proves that no terrorist anywhere in the world can escape justice no matter how much time it takes.
Biden said he would speak to and congratulate Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders and discuss ways to return the hostages to their families and end this war once and for all.
Harris, who was campaigning on a Wisconsin college campus, said the war should end in a way that Israel is safe, hostages are released, suffering in Gaza ends and Palestinians realize their right to dignity, security, freedom and self-determination. Can do. He said, “Now the time has come to start a new day.
