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Hamas has confirmed Israel killed the organization's leader, Yahya Sinwar, marking what could be a turning point in its yearlong war. Sinwar was apparently not killed as part of a targeted strike, but in the course of Israel's indiscriminate assault on the Gaza Strip. It's not a war that's happening against Hamas ... This is an Israeli genocide against the Palestinian people," says Palestinian analyst Tareq Baconi, author of Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance. The removal of someone like Yahya Sinwar will not stop the Netanyahu government from carrying out its genocide in the Gaza Strip."