It was around 5:30 in the morning on Thursday in Washington, DC, when senior US officials first got word — and photographs — from their Israeli counterparts: Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar might be dead. For more than a year since Hamas attacked Israel last October 7,

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Mr. Sinwar, one of the main architects of the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel, spent decades with the militant group, working his way to the top of its leadership.