Written by the editors
10/18/2024–|Last updated: 10/18/202403:08 AM (Mecca time)
After a full year of persecution in the Gaza Strip, Israel said on Thursday evening that it had finally succeeded in killing the head of the political bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), Yahya Sinwar, during clashes that took place the previous day in the southern Gaza Strip.
Despite always bragging about its intelligence capabilities and proving this recently with several major assassinations in Lebanon, Israel has not been able for a whole year, and perhaps more than that, to reach its first target.
The man who shook the occupying entity with Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7, 2023, met his Lord by pure chance, as Israeli occupation army spokesman Daniel Hagari admitted during a press conference on Thursday evening.
Hagari said, “We did not know he was there. At first we identified him as an armed man inside a building, and he was seen, masked, throwing a wooden plank at the drone seconds before he was killed.”
Israel, its supporters and supporters have often claimed that Hamas leaders are hiding among civilians, but here it itself admits that the Hamas leader fought until the last seconds of his life, maintaining the ambition that distinguished him until the end and made him try to target a drone with a piece of wood that was perhaps what he had at that moment. .
Was such a man afraid of death? Is anyone who dares to lead a resistance movement against an oppressive occupier expected to do otherwise?
The true promise
It does not seem that the matter was just an expectation, but rather a wish that Sinwar himself revealed during a press interview a few years ago.
The man said, “The greatest gift that the enemy and the occupation can give me is to assassinate me and to die a martyr at his hands. I would rather be martyred by missiles than die of Corona, a stroke, a road accident, or any other way in which people die.”
The man went on to explain this wish, saying, “At this age, I have come closer to the true promise, and I would rather die as a martyr than die as a martyr.”
Fataysa, in the common expression in Palestine and neighboring Arab countries, means someone who dies a death that has no honor and no price, or at best an ordinary death.
By chance
Sinwar, then, died as he wished. He was martyred while wearing his military uniform and fighting with all his might, and was not hiding in a tunnel as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeatedly said.
Just as Sinwar deprived the occupation of safety during the flood of Al-Aqsa, he also deprived them, in his final moments, of giving them the image of victory they had always dreamed of. Despite all these military and intelligence capabilities, and all this support from major international powers in exchange for regional silence, this huge army was unable to kill His resisting enemy only by chance and during a combing operation that took place the day after the clashes.
Hamas and the resistance will undoubtedly be affected by the departure of Sinwar, but when has a resistance movement against the occupier been affected by the departure of one of its leaders? Many people preceded him in martyrdom, not the first of whom was Hamas founder Ahmed Yassin, and the movement is still resisting and preparing against its enemy whatever force and men it can.