The killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar is a key milestone for Israel in its ongoing, grinding effort to destroy the Palestinian Islamist movement in Gaza. The details of the killing show the extent to which Hamas no longer has any depth of control over any part of Gaza.
Earlier in the war, Sinwar would have been located deep within several circles of protection. The approach of danger would have been identified by the outer circle, and the leader moved to a new place of hiding. This is evidently no longer possible for Hamas. When troops of the IDF’s 450th Brigade were on a routine sweep in Rafat, they identified suspicious figures entering a building and opened fire on it. The Hamas leader had nowhere to run. Fleeing to an adjacent structure, he was then killed when a tank shell brought the building down on top of him.
It was a notably undramatic end to Sinwar’s career, testimony in its details to the low ebb to which he has brought the movement to which he dedicated his life.
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