Security Council Resolution 1701, adopted after Israel’s last war with Hamas in 2006 and repeatedly violated by both sides, authorized a peacekeeping mission known as UNIFIL to help Lebanon’s army keep the area south of the river free of weapons and armed personnel other than those of the Lebanese state.

Yahya Sinwar is dead. On Thursday, Israel confirmed it had killed the 62-year-old leader of Hamas in a strike in southern Gaza. Sinwar’s death is significant — for both the U.S.-designated terrorist group that he led and the Jewish state that he sought to destroy.

Head of Israel's military, Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi, said Israel's pursuit of Sinwar over the past year drove him 'to act like a fugitive, causing him to change locations multiple times'