Yahya Sinwar, the political and military leader of the Hamas movement, who was martyred in the battle of Rafah while fighting the Zionist soldiers face to face alongside the resistance fighters, was the primary target of the Zionist war on Gaza. The Zionist entity considered him the main man and mastermind behind the events of October 7, 2023, and placed him on the assassination list that would bring them victory. He was one of the main targets of the war aimed at eliminating the Hamas movement. Many Zionist political and security leaders considered him a personal target, chief among them the current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was held responsible for his release in 2011, along with a number of prominent Hamas leaders.
The Great Deception
The major intelligence deception suffered by the Zionist security establishment when the Palestinian mentality managed to penetrate the Zionist system with all its components, capabilities, military fortifications, and security, and breached its borders into the settlements and military bases on October 7. One of the main motives in the matter of revenge and personal vengeance against Sinwar, who disrupted their calculations, exposed their system and revealed the falsity of their iron wall which they boasted about and used to intimidate the Arabs. It was a strategic deception with deep political implications.
The symbolism represented by the scene of Sinwar's martyrdom has debunked the Zionist narratives that spoke of him hiding underground, using prisoners as shields, and abandoning his people to face death. Instead, it highlighted the man in his military attire, brandishing his weapon, moving from place to place to confront Zionist tanks, and blocking the path of Netanyahu and his army in achieving a victory image they sought through his death. It increased their arrogance and brutality in killing and massacres to cover up their failure despite the man's death, which was not according to their plan, turning the scene into a victory image to achieve an end to this war that had drained their army and state.
Martyrdom and Its Effects
The absence of Sinwar from the political and military scene in Gaza raises many questions about the impact of his martyrdom on Palestinian resistance and the course of the war in Gaza, opportunities for a prisoner exchange deal, and chances for a cessation of the war. Logically, Sinwar's martyrdom will not affect Palestinian resistance, particularly Hamas, as many political and military leaders preceded him in martyrdom, but the movement has only grown stronger and fiercer. It also will not affect the reality on the ground due to the military structure of the movement, based on battalion and faction leaders, mechanisms for selecting and appointing their deputies, and the street warfare that imposed a sequential leadership reality on Hamas.
Ramifications and Speculations
The ramifications and speculations have multiplied following the martyrdom of the political and military leader of Hamas, Yahya Sinwar, internationally and Zionistly. Washington considered his death a turning point in the ongoing war for over a year, and that it was time to end it and negotiate a hostage release deal. American officials believed that Sinwar was the most important target for the Zionist state to declare the end of its war in Gaza and accept any deal. The Zionist entity believed that eliminating Sinwar would help efforts to reach an agreement to stop the war and release the hostages.
While others warned that his assassination could complicate matters and endanger the lives of hostages, and that there are fears of revenge against the prisoners, which could complicate matters and lead to unpredictable repercussions in the absence of Sinwar and before him Salah al-Arouri, and Ismail Haniyeh, or due to the lack of a plan on what to do.
While many Western leaders considered Sinwar's assassination a great opportunity to end the war on Gaza, release the prisoners, launch a new phase, free the Zionist prisoners, declare an immediate ceasefire, and reconstruct the Gaza Strip.
New Initiatives
Those who follow the Palestinian and Zionist affairs, and the stages of the Zionist annihilation war in Gaza, which is entering its second year, can speculate that the United States and the Biden administration will try to present a new initiative for negotiations that meet Netanyahu's demands, and pressure Hamas, while the annihilation, bombing, and military pressure continue until the destruction of Gaza and making it uninhabitable, with the aim of achieving the goals of the Zionist occupation of displacing the population outside the Strip.
The talk about negotiations regarding a prisoner exchange deal remains as an American-Zionist card without any real implementation, which the United States exploits as a winning card in its upcoming elections to alleviate criticism, in the absence of international accountability for the entity, and the incapacity of international law to pressure and hold it accountable, allowing it to continue until it achieves what it describes as the goals of wars that change and exchange according to Zionist desires.
The entity, using all its power after the policy of deterrence, military pressure, assassinations, and high-handed policies, seeks to impose new facts on the ground in the Gaza Strip, starting with separating the north of the Strip from its south through the Netzarim axis, passing through controlling the Philadelphi axis, and expanding the buffer zone north of the Strip.
However, at the same time, it aligns with most of the Zionist goals and imposes the new American vision in the region, so Sinwar's assassination may be the beginning of announcing the end of the war on Gaza by the entity and America, but it is necessary to differentiate here between announcing the end of the war and the reality that resulted and will result from it, because the end that the entity wants does not align with the vision that Hamas and the resistance factions want.