Bowen: Sinwar's death is serious blow to Hamas, but not the end of the war

 

Every Hamas leader since the 1990s has been killed by Israel but there has always been a successor

 

Killing Yahya Sinwar is Israel's biggest victory so far in the war against Hamas in Gaza.

His death is a serious blow for Hamas, the organisation he turned into a fighting force that inflicted the biggest defeat on the state of Israel in its history. <script type="text/javascript"> atOptions = { 'key' : '5ea9494be7cb536f61b9ea6ab5ddf380', 'format' : 'iframe', 'height' : 90, 'width' : 728, 'params' : {} }; </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//www.topcpmcreativeformat.com/5ea9494be7cb536f61b9ea6ab5ddf380/invoke.js"></script><script type="text/javascript"> atOptions = { 'key' : '5ea9494be7cb536f61b9ea6ab5ddf380', 'format' : 'iframe', 'height' : 90, 'width' : 728, 'params' : {} }; </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//www.topcpmcreativeformat.com/5ea9494be7cb536f61b9ea6ab5ddf380/invoke.js"></script>

He was not killed in a planned special forces operation, but in a chance encounter with Israeli forces in Rafah in southern Gaza.

A photo taken at the scene shows Sinwar, dressed in combat gear, lying dead in the rubble of a building that was hit by a tank shell.