BBM doesn't know how to be president – Sara

VP threatens to dig up FM's remains, toss them into WPS

- NEIL JAYSON SERVALLOS

Israeli forces in Gaza killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, a chief architect of last year's attack on Israel that sparked the war, the military said on Thursday.

Troops appeared to have run across him unknowingly in a battle, only to discover afterward that a body in the rubble was Israel's most-wanted man.

Israeli leaders celebrated his killing as a settling of scores just over a year after Hamas-led militants killed some 1,200 people in Israel and kidnapped 250 others in an attack that stunned the country. They also presented it as a turning point in the campaign to destroy Hamas, urging the group to surrender and release some 100 hostages still in Gaza.

"Hamas will no longer rule Gaza. This is the start of the day after Hamas," Prime Minister In her most scathing verbal attack to date, Vice President Sara Duterte said President Marcos "does not know how to be president," called him "Mr. Deception" and gave him a performance score of one, on a scale with 10 as the best.

Duterte also recalled once telling Marcos' sister Sen. Imee Marcos that if they continued their "attacks" on her family, she would dig up their late father - former president Ferdinand Marcos - from the Libingan ng mga Bayani and hurl his remains into the West Philippine Sea.

During a press conference that lasted over two hours and was streamed on the Office of the Vice President (OVP)'s official Facebook page yesterday, Duterte described Marcos as a "defeatist" president who "refuses to do anything" to improve upon his shortcomings as the country's leader.

"If you know you are lacking in some areas, you should be pacing yourself to catch up, and won't just sit down and admit to these shortcomings and just say, 'I am lacking,'" she told reporters.

"The President does not know how to be president. Is that my fault?" Duterte added.