Global Hotspots: Israel Takes Out Hamas Leader Sinwar

New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy

This week, Israel took out Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in Gaza, while the United States for the first time threatened to cut off arms supplies to Israel and the United Kingdom proposed sanctions against Israeli leaders. In the Indo-Pacific, China held its most intense military exercises this year, staging a blockade within Taiwan’s contiguous waters near its ports. 'In the Russia/Ukraine conflict, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy unveiled his “'Victory Plan'” to parliaments and leaders of the EU and NATO.