Home Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Thursday marked the dying of Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar by calling him “the embodiment of evil,” including his life was “marked by hatred for all that’s good on the planet.”
“His dying brings hope for all those that search to reside in freedom, and reduction to Israelis he has sought to oppress,” Johnson mentioned in a put up on the social platform X.
Sinwar, the architect of the Oct. 7 assault final yr towards Israel, was killed amid an Israeli navy operation in Gaza on Thursday, in accordance with the Israel Protection Forces (IDF).
“Let this be a reminder to Hamas and all those who were involved in the October 7th attacks: you may try to terrorize and intimidate, but those who live under the banner of freedom will never surrender,” Johnson mentioned in his put up.
“The eternal flame of liberty and the faith of the Jewish people will never be snuffed out by the darkness of barbarism and the cruelty of antisemitism.”
In a earlier assertion, the Israeli navy and Shin Wager, Israel’s inside safety service, mentioned, “Yahya Sinwar was eliminated after hiding for the past year behind the civilian population of Gaza, both above and below ground in Hamas tunnels in the Gaza Strip.”
“The dozens of operations carried out by the IDF and the ISA over the last year, and in recent weeks in the area where he was eliminated, restricted Yahya Sinwar’s operational movement as he was pursued by the forces and led to his elimination,” the assertion continued.
In his put up on X, Johnson pushed the Biden administration to “work in tandem with Israel to apply a maximum pressure campaign against the head of the snake: Iran.”
“We cannot let this moment go to waste,” he added.
Each President Biden and Vice President Harris mentioned Sinwar’s dying may assist deliver an finish to the warfare in Gaza.
Nevertheless, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mentioned in his speech on Sinwar’s dying that the warfare “is not over yet.”
The Hill has reached out to the White Home for remark.
