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The death of Sinwar is a dose for now, but it won’t satisfy the right-wing public or the government [in the long term]. They are looking for more killing and more war,
I don’t believe the death of Sinwar changes Israel’s calculations in terms of Netanyahu’s desire to proceed with the destruction and depopulation of the Gaza Strip,
said Omar Rahman, visiting fellow on Israel-Palestine for the Middle East Council on Global Affairs think tank in Doha The underlying grievances [of Palestinians] are not being addressed … therefore the resistance to Israeli dispossession will continue,
Organisationally speaking, [killing Sinwar] further degrades Hamas from a leadership and operational standpoint. But the organisation is intact … it has fighters that operate in cells without centralised leadership,
He wants to make Israelis believe that they are under a state of siege or war … That’s his way of controlling them and staying in power,
Hamas ended up becoming even stronger than they were [when Ahmed Yassin was alive],
The result: [Israel] has locked itself into permanent conflict and they have continued all this time to prefer military responses because they put themselves into a position where there are no political solutions,
Over time … more people recognise that [Israel] can try to kill the resistance leaders, but it will never kill the resistance,
Israel has assassinated many Palestinian leaders before and it will continue doing that. Nothing has ever changed because, fundamentally, successive Israeli governments – even under Labour, not just Likud – have been unwilling to cede territory or cede genuine Palestinian sovereignty,
He tried to escape and our forces eliminated him,
Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said during a televised briefing Mass murderer Yahya Sinwar, who was responsible for the massacre and atrocities of 7 October, was killed today by IDF soldiers."
His death was later confirmed by foreign minister Israel Katz who said There is a new landscape, a new geopolitical change in the region,
said David Schenker, a former U.S. assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs who is now a senior fellow at the Washington Institute think tank Sinwar was the biggest obstacle to ending the war,
said Shalom ben Chanan, who led a division of the Shin Bet security service that specialises in hunting terrorists Let’s make this moment an opportunity to seek a path to peace [and] a better future in Gaza without Hamas,
We identified him as a terrorist inside a building, fired at the building and then went in to search.”
The IDF released footage of a tank firing at the building in Rafah’s Tel al-Sultan refugee camp, and the military spokesperson, R Adm Daniel Hagari, said Facing and not retreating, engaging in the frontlines and moving between combat positions.”
Sinwar’s successors in the Hamas leadership celebrated the fact that he died in combat, in the words of his deputy, Khalil al-Hayya His movement was between Khan Yunis and Rafah, and our assessment was he was in Gaza the whole time. The footage is the documentation from the film with his family,
They (Hamas leaders) use them (civilians) only as human shields and are preoccupied with their own survival. An example is the amounts of money he (Sinwar) kept wherever he hid,
Hagari said in a video statement You can see how Sinwar and his family members escape to an underground compound under their house on the night of October 6, just hours before the brutal massacre,
Hagari said in a televised briefing It was only when I stepped outside that I internalized that this was the man responsible for more murder than anyone in the history of the country.
Continuing, the Israeli medic said