President Biden said today that the killing of the Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar offered “an opportunity to seek a path to peace” in the Middle East. Speaking in Berlin, where he met with European leaders, Biden said he would send Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Israel in the coming days to discuss a plan to end the war in Gaza.

Biden also spoke with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, whose office said that both leaders had agreed there was an “opportunity to advance the release of the hostages” as part of a cease-fire deal. However, Sinwar’s longtime deputy insisted that Hamas’s demands were unchanged.

For Biden, who has only three months left in office, getting a cease-fire deal done is a big reach, my colleague David Sanger writes.

An autopsy conducted by Israel found that Sinwar was killed by a gunshot wound to the head. Here’s what we know about his death.

In related news, Kamala Harris is unlikely to break from Biden on Israel, her advisers said.