Trump says Sinwar death makes peace easier, plans to speak to Netanyahu

19/10/2024 6:20

        Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Friday that the death of Palestinian Islamist group Hamas' leader Yahya Sinwar would make the prospect of peace easier in Gaza.
        
        "I think it makes it easier," the former president told reporters as he arrived in Detroit for campaign events.
        
        Sinwar, 62, the architect of the deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, was killed in an Israeli operation in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday. Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023 attack killed 1,200 with about 250 people taken as hostages, according to Israeli tallies. It triggered the latest bloodshed in the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
        
        Trump also said he plans to talk to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu soon. He praised the Israeli leader as doing a good job while attacking President Joe Biden's administration.