Announced by Israel this Thursday (17), the death of Yahya Sinwar, head of Hamas and architect of the October 7th attacks, occurs at a time when the Jewish State is collecting successive victories against the terrorist group it swore to eliminate.
Between July and October of this year, Tel Aviv practically eliminated the leadership of the Palestinian faction. In addition to Sinwar (pronounced “sinuár”), the leaders of the political and military wings of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh —whom the “butcher of Khan Yunis”, as Sinwar was known, succeeded— and Mohammed Deif were also assassinated during the period. .
Before that, the right-hand men of both Deif and Haniyeh had been killed: Saleh al-Arouri, deputy political chief, in January, and Marwan Issa, deputy commander, in March.
Haniyeh’s death was particularly remarkable because of the circumstances in which it occurred. The leader was assassinated in Tehran shortly after participating in the inauguration of the country’s new president, Masoud Pezeshkian, making the Persian nation’s involvement in the war unavoidable — the country is the main guarantor of Hamas.
Another faction supported by the republic of the ayatollahs, the Lebanese Hezbollah, has also suffered significant losses in its senior ranks due to its involvement in the conflict, in support of Hamas. Hassan Nasrallah, a Shiite priest who led the group for 32 years, was killed last month, amid the intensification of the Israeli offensive in Lebanon.
In addition to him, Ibrahim Qabisi, head of the militia’s missile unit, and Ibrahim Aqil, head of its elite force, the Radwan unit, died in Beirut in the same month.
