Hayya says its former leader died in combat, after US president Joe Biden says his death is a "moment of justice".

BERLIN — President Joe Biden is on his way back to the United States from a day of meetings in Berlin, appearing alongside German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and marking the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar as a "moment of justice."

For more than a year, the fate of the Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar seemed entwined with the fate of the war in Gaza. Mr. Sinwar orchestrated the Hamas assault on Israel last October that killed up to 1,200 people,