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Death of Hamas leader Sinwar offers chance for peace, but may only lead to rise of more extremists
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A drone footage of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar moments before he was killed, in the neighbourhood of Tal al-Sultan in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
PHOTO: AFP
LONDON - In the end, the death of Yahya Sinwar – leader of the Hamas militant organisation that inflicted the most significant blow to Israel since the Jewish state’s formation – did not come at the hands of some stealthy Israeli commando squad, but by sheer chance.
He was killed on Oct 17 when a routine patrol of Israeli infantry troops in Gaza confronted him.
