Afrasianet - After a year of manhunt in the Gaza Strip, Israel said Thursday evening that it had finally succeeded in killing the head of Hamas' political bureau, Yahya Sinwar,  during clashes the previous day in the southern Gaza Strip.

Despite the constant boasting of its intelligence capabilities and recent evidence of several major assassinations in Lebanon, for a whole year, perhaps more, Israel has not been able to reach its first want.

The man who shook the occupying entity in Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7, 2023, met his Lord by chance, as acknowledged by the spokesman for the Israeli occupation army, Daniel Hagari, during a press conference on Thursday evening.

"We didn't know he was there, at first we recognized him as a gunman inside a building, and he was seen masked throwing a wooden board at the drone seconds before he was killed," Hagari said.

Israel and its supporters and supporters have often claimed that Hamas leaders are hiding among civilians, but now they admit to themselves that the Hamas leader fought until the last seconds of his life, retaining the ambition that distinguished him until the end and making him try to target a drone with a piece of wood that was perhaps what he could at that moment.

Was such a man afraid of death? Do those who confront the leadership of a resistance movement against a brutal occupier expect otherwise?

The True Promise

It does not seem to have been an expectation, but a wish that Sinwar himself revealed during a press interview nearly three years ago.

"The biggest gift that the enemy and the occupation can give me is to assassinate me and to die a martyr at his hands, I am now 59 years old, I really prefer to cite the F16 than die of Corona, stroke, road accident or other way than people die," the man said.

The man went on to explain this wish, saying, "At this age I am close to the true promise and I would rather die as a martyr than die in a bad way."

In Palestine and neighboring Arab countries, it means a person who dies without honour or price, or at best an ordinary death.

By chance

Sinwar, then, died as he wished, he was martyred while wearing his uniform and fighting with all the strength he could, and he was not hiding in a tunnel as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly repeated.

Just as Sinwar deprived the occupation of safety in the flood of Al-Aqsa, he also deprived it in its last moments from giving them the image of a victory they had always dreamed of, for despite all these military and intelligence capabilities, and all this support from major international powers in exchange for regional silence, this huge army was able to kill its resistant enemy only by chance and during a combing operation that took place the day after the clashes.

The Al-Aqsa flood was not the first embodiment of Sinwar's ambition and his courageous passion for resistance and achieving the impossible, as the man overcame four life sentences for 426 years, and exceeded prison periods totaling more than 22 years in the occupation prisons, to come out having learned Hebrew and fall into the activities of the resistance, becoming a member of Hamas' political bureau, then responsible for the movement's prisoners' file, then head of the movement in the Gaza Strip and head of its political bureau after the assassination  of Ismail Haniyeh in the Iranian capital, Tehran.

Hamas and the resistance will undoubtedly be affected by the departure of Sinwar and before him Haniyeh, but when did a resistance movement against the occupier stop with the departure of one of its leaders? He was preceded by many people, not the first of whom was the founder of Hamas, Ahmed Yassin, and the movement is still resisting and preparing for its enemy as much strength and men as it can.