President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and other U.S. political leaders celebrated on Oct. 17 following the news Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was killed in a recent Israeli military operation.

“I called [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu] to congratulate him on getting Sinwar,” Biden told members of the press as he landed in Berlin, Germany for a state visit this week. “He had a lot of blood in his hands. American blood, Israeli blood, and others.”

The U.S. government placed Hamas on its list of designated foreign terrorist organizations in 1997 and officially named Sinwar on its Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGT) list in 2015.

Sinwar, 61, has served as the top Hamas figure in Gaza since 2017, and as the chairman of the Hamas political bureau since August. He was seen by Israel as the mastermind behind the Oct. 7, 2023, invasion, during which Hamas gunmen carried out killings and kidnappings across southern Israel, leaving about 1,200 people dead, thousands more wounded, and 251 abducted as hostages.


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