UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this Saturday (19), according to a Downing Street spokesperson.
Starmer commented that the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar is an opportunity to end the conflict in Gaza and free the hostages. He added that Sinwar was “a brutal terrorist and the world is a better place without him.”
Starmer also told Netanyahu that he was “on alert” upon hearing about a drone launched at his home in Caesarea, northern Israel, on Saturday morning.
The two discussed the “importance of a political solution” to the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon, according to Downing Street.
Who is Yahya Sinwar?
However, he has since become the de facto leader of the Politburo, according to research by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR).
He has been designated a global terrorist by the US State Department since 2015 and has been sanctioned by the United Kingdom and France.
Find out more about who Yahya Sinwar was through this article.
Understand the conflict in the Gaza Strip
Israel has carried out intense airstrikes in the Gaza Strip since last year, after Hamas invaded the country and killed 1,200 people, according to Israeli counts. Furthermore, the radical group holds dozens of hostages.
Hamas does not recognize Israel as a state and claims Israeli territory for Palestine.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly promised to destroy Hamas’ military capabilities and recover people detained in Gaza.
In addition to the air offensive, the Israeli Army carries out land incursions into Palestinian territory. This caused much of Gaza’s population to be displaced.
The UN and several humanitarian institutions have warned of a catastrophic humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, with a lack of food, medicine and the spread of diseases.
After about a year of the conflict, the Israeli population took to the streets in protests against Netanyahu, accusing the prime minister of failing to reach a ceasefire agreement so that the hostages could be released.
With information from CNN and Reuters
This content was originally published in UK Prime Minister talks to Netanyahu about Sinwar’s death on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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