Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said Saturday that the killing of Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar will not slow the resistance war its proxy groups are waging against Israel.

Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader who was killed by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip, was the mastermind behind the Oct. 7 attack on Israel that sparked the war. He rose to the top position in August after the killing of the previous leader,

Israel succeeded Wednesday in its year-long mission to kill Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, the man accused of being one of the masterminds of the October 7, 2023 attacks.