The death of Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar on Thursday is an incredible achievement for Israel. It is also a blow to Iran and its axis of terror across the Middle East.
Since July, Israel has decapitated the leadership of Hamas and Hezbollah – with the killings of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh, Hezbollah’s secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah, and now Sinwar himself. There has also been the killing of two commanders of the IRGC Quds Force’s Lebanon Corps – Mohammad Reza Zahedi and Abbas Nilforoushan – in this year alone. While the Islamic Republic has suffered from eliminations of its regional henchmen for years, the breadth and depth of Israel’s recent operations is unprecedented.
Never before have Hamas and Hezbollah been simultaneously defanged in this way from the top of the organisation down
Hamas has lost previous leaders to Israel in the past, such as Ahmed Yassin and Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi in 2004. Before Nasrallah’s death, Israel had also eliminated Hezbollah secretary-general Abbas al-Musawi in 1992.
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