TEHRAN, Oct 19, 2024 (BSS/AFP) - Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Saturday that Hamas was alive and will survive despite the death of its leader Yahya Sinwar in an Israeli military operation in Gaza. "His loss is certainly painful for the resistance front" against Israel, "but it will not end at all with the martyrdom of Sinwar", Khamenei said. The Palestinian Islamist movement "Hamas is alive and will remain alive", he said in a statement. "He stood with unwavering determination against the cruel and aggressive enemy and slapped them with tact and courage," he added. Sinwar, long a man in the shadows, took over as head of Hamas after the killing in July of its leader, Ismail Haniyeh, in the Iranian capital Tehran.
