Russia said today it was concerned about the "consequences for the civilian population" following the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinouar, killed in an Israeli operation in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday.
"The main thing for us is the consequences for the civilian population that we are seeing at the moment," Russian presidential spokesman Dmitri Peskov said.
"The humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza and Lebanon is of great concern to us," added the presidential spokesman, quoted by Russian news agencies, when asked about Russia's reaction to Sinouar's death.
Israel confirmed on Thursday that it had killed the main Hamas leader and mastermind of the October 7, 2023 attacks, Yahya Sinouar, the Palestinian Islamic group's most wanted man in the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip.
The official confirmation came after previous information showed the high probability that one of the dead resulting from a routine operation by the Israeli Army, on Wednesday in the Gaza Strip, was Yahya Sinouar.
Born 62 years ago in a refugee camp in Khan Yunis, a city in the southern Gaza Strip, Yahya Sinouar spent 23 years in Israeli prisons before being released in 2011 in a prisoner exchange.
In 1987, when the First Intifada broke out, he joined Hamas, which had just been founded.
He was elected leader of the Islamist group in the enclave in 2017, after having created a reputation as a staunch enemy of Israel, and was also involved in the creation of Majd, Hamas' internal security service.
On August 6, after the assassination in Tehran of the head of the movement's political office, Ismail Haniyeh, Sinouar was chosen to occupy the highest position in the hierarchy of the Palestinian group.
After the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023 on Israeli soil, which caused around 1,200 deaths and more than two hundred hostages, Israel launched a large-scale offensive in the Gaza Strip, which has already caused more than 42,000 deaths, most of them civilians, and a humanitarian disaster, destabilizing the entire Middle East region.
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