Killing Hamas leader garners Israel a tactical, not a strategic success
By James M. Dorsey
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For the past year, Israel depicted Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar as a coward hiding in Gaza’s fortified underground tunnels shielded by 22 handcuffed Israeli hostages.
Drone footage of the Hamas leader’s last minutes released by the Israeli military showed a different Mr. Sinwar.
Dressed in military fatigues, badly wounded, and covered in dust in a ruined above-ground apartment after an exchange of fire with Israeli troops, Mr. Sinwar, seemingly alone, made one last gesture of defiance before he was killed.
