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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,
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 The greatest gift the enemy and the occupation can give me is to assassinate me so I can go to Allah as a martyr by their hand,
he said, in the video captured in 2021, two years before Hamas' attack on Israel Mass murderer Yahya Sinwar, who was responsible for the massacre and atrocities of October 7, was killed today by IDF soldiers,
Israel's foreign minister said in a statement I am 59 years old. At 60, you are closer to dying from natural causes. I prefer to die a martyr than die a meaningless death,
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 As always, we will remain by the side of the sincere fighters and combatants, by God's grace and help,
His loss is undoubtedly painful for the Axis of Resistance, but this
Khamenei said in a statement Hamas is alive and will remain alive.
The strike has seen a shock wave spread across the region - with Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declaring It wouldn't have worked in any case
But Dr. Chen Kugel, who oversaw his autopsy, told The New York Times All of them are super eager for offramps. They have been from the start,
said Michael Wahid Hanna, a Middle East expert at the International Crisis Group, speaking of the Arab nations