Israel says Yahya Sinwar, Hamas' top leader in Gaza, killed in major blow to militant group
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Israel's Foreign Minister Israel Katz said Thursday that Hamas' top leader and long-time commander in the Gaza Strip, Yahya Sinwar, was killed by troops during an operation in the decimated Palestinian territory.
In a message the Israeli government said was shared with dozens of other foreign ministers around the world, Katz said Sinwar, "who is responsible for the massacre and atrocities of October 7, was killed today by IDF soldiers."
"This is a great military and moral achievement for Israel and victory for the free world in everything against the evil axis of extreme Islam led by Iran," said Katz in the statement, sent to CBS News by the Israeli foreign ministry.
Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of an Armenian church dating back almost 2,000 years, making it the oldest structure of its kind in the country and one of the oldest in the world. Germany's University of Münster, which partnered with a team at the Armenian academy of Sciences on the archaeological dig, announced the discovery Friday and called it "a sensational testimony to early Christianity in Armenia."
Seoul, South Korea — North Korea has accused rival South Korea of flying drones to its capital to drop anti-North Korean propaganda leaflets and threatened to respond with force if such flights occur again. North Korea's Foreign Ministry said in a statement Friday that South Korean drones were detected in the night skies of Pyongyang on Oct. 3 and Wednesday and Thursday this week.
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 was awarded Friday to the Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo, with the Nobel committee lauding the "grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki" for its work to "achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again."