Israeli media continued to focus their attention on pictures of the last moments published by the Israeli army of the head of the political bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), Yahya Sinwar, before his martyrdom as a result of an armed clash with the occupation forces.
The questions raised by Israeli media revolved around the pictures of the Israeli drone that captured Sinwar’s last moments, and whether the Israeli army made a mistake in publishing them due to the supportive reactions expressed by the Palestinians and Arabs about the Hamas leader and his challenge to the occupation.
Elior Levy, a Palestinian affairs analyst for the Israeli Kan 11 channel, says that the people of Gaza and the Arab world view these pictures in a way that is opposite to the Israeli view, as they show that he fought until the last drop of blood.
Levy believes that Israel is making a big mistake if it believes that these pictures “constitute an insult to Sinwar in the eyes of the Gazans, the Arab world, and the axis of resistance.”
He considered that Sinwar’s image is much greater than that, “he is more than a legendary figure, and the impression of him and everything he did will accompany him for years and generations to come.”
The occupation army confirmed last Thursday that Al-Sanwar, whom Israel considers the architect of the “Al-Aqsa Flood” on settlements and bases around the Gaza Strip, was killed on Wednesday in the Tal Al-Sultan neighborhood in the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
Pictures published by the Israeli army show a masked Sinwar sitting on one of the seats and throwing a wooden stick at an Israeli drone that entered the building, before he was targeted by firing a tank shell at the building.
While Roi Sharon, a military affairs analyst on Kan 11, saw that “there is no glory for Sinwar in the published photos, considering that he deserved to end his life like this,” Levy responded to him, saying that the Israeli army did not publish the photos for you or for him (i.e. army).
He explained that the army believed that when Gazans saw the published video of Al-Sanwar, they would say that the Israelis “humiliated him,” adding, “You are wrong, and you do not understand Hamas’ thinking.”
In the same context, Israeli Channel 13 said that the pictures of Israeli soldiers around Sinwar “showed the world as if the Hamas leader had fallen in a humiliating manner, but the situation completely changed when the army published the drone video.”
The channel quoted a Reuters journalist as saying that these pictures show Sinwar “as a role model for the Palestinian resistance. He is injured but defiant and resists. He looks at the march with disdain through the keffiyeh and tries to bring it down.”