The funeral and protest procession of Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar was held at Dhaka University (DU).

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Gaybana Janaza was held on Friday (October 18) around 10:30 pm at Dhaka University's VC premises.

More than five hundred students from various departments, institutes and halls of the university participated in Gaybana janaza. After the Janaza prayers were held for the soul of Shaheed Sinwar. The students then took out a protest march from the VC square to Raju Bhaskar.

Israel claimed the killing of Yahya Sinwar on the night of October 17. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) also released drone footage of the moments just before Sinwar's death. The Israeli forces are demanding the killing of Sinwar within a few months of the killing of the former head of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh. On August 6, 61-year-old Yahya Sinwar was chosen as the new leader by Hamas after Haniya was killed in Iran's capital, Tehran, on July 31.