The Times of Israel reports: “Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Saturday that Hamas was alive and would survive despite the death of its leader Yahya Sinwar in an Israeli military operation in Gaza.

Sinwar was the architect of the October 7, 2023 invasion and slaughter in southern Israel, when some 3,000 Hamas-led terrorists burst through the Gaza border and massacred some 1,200 people in their homes, communities and at a music festival, and abducted 251 to Gaza, where 97 are still held hostage from that day.

He was killed by IDF troops in Gaza’s Rafah on Wednesday.

‘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.

‘Hamas is alive and will remain alive,’ he said in a statement…”