Yahya Sinwarleader of Hamas in Gaza and mastermind of the October 7 pogrom which sparked the war against his organization, died in an Israeli air attack inside the Palestinian territory, as confirmed by official sources. The lack of information on his fate has led media and analysts in the region to speculate for weeks about his death. Finally, after a few hours of confusion, the information was confirmed this Thursday.
Sinwar climbed into the structure recently, after Ismail Haniyehhis predecessor, was assassinated during his official visit to Iran in July, where he attended the president’s inauguration. Massoud Pezeshkian. The Islamic Republic blamed Tel Aviv for the crime, but Tel Aviv remained silent in confirming and denying it. This time it was different.
The news has an extraordinary dimension. A year and ten days later, Israel eliminated the man to whom it attributes the worst attack in its history, with more than 1,200 murdered and 255 kidnapped – 101 are still trapped by the terrorists – and to whom it responded with a war in the Gaza Strip that the Palestinian people are still suffering: with tens of thousands of dead, with around two million displaced, with a territory practically reduced to ruins and with a starving population.
Israeli intelligence is still trying to determine what Sinwar’s true intentions were with 7-O. Many analysts agree that he sacrificed his own people to disrupt the emerging friendship between Tel Aviv and Sunni countries, notably Saudi Arabia, structured by the Abraham Accords. Even though he thought that in exchange for the return of the hostages to their homes, he would empty Israeli prisons of Palestinian terrorists.
Many insist, in turn, that Sinwar failed in his calculations on the capabilities of enemy troops to maneuver in Gaza or on the degree of commitment of Iran and its allies in the region, notably the Lebanese Hezbollah. and the Houthis of Yemen, to open several pockets of war that would saturate Israeli defenses.
What is certain is that the world is different now. Israel considers the situation in Gaza and the Hamas threat reasonably under control and has given priority, since mid-September, to operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon. The leaders of the Islamist organization which controls the south of the neighboring country have in fact disappeared within ten days. One by one, Israel eliminated its leaders until it reached the supreme leader, Hassan Nasrallahmurdered in the Shiite neighborhood of Beirut.
And not only that. Threats and exchanges of blows with Iran alarm the international community, and Israel’s main allies are calling for restraint and a ceasefire for fear of an uncontrolled escalation.
