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The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah vowed to launch a new phase of fighting against invading Israeli troops Friday, a day after Israel said its forces in the Palestinian enclave of Gaza had killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar,

The 62-year-old, chosen to lead Hamas after the Israeli assassination of Ismail Haniyeh in July, had been at the top of Israel’s hit list, and had been believed to be hiding in the vast network of tunnels built beneath Gaza over the past two decades, protected by bodyguards and what Israel has repeatedly called a “human shield of hostages”.