As he sat in a bombed-out Palestinian home, the world’s last glimpse of Hamas ‘ leader was brutal and fresh, showing him cornered and wounded before the Israeli drone was filming him and hurling a stay at it.
For Israel, the scene was one of triumph, showing Yahya Sinwar, the engineer of October 7, broken and defeated.
However, the thick footage of a angry martyr who died fighting until the end, was something that many in the Arab and Muslim worlds, whether they were Hamas supporters or not, saw in the grainy footage.
Snippets from the released drone film, which included estimates from Sinwar’s speeches, where he declared that he preferred to die on the front line, were shared on social media. A veiled Sinwar sitting boldly on an armchair in an oil decoration was popular, allegedly inspired by the final picture of him dead.
” By broadcasting the last days of the existence of Yahya Sinwar, the job made his life more than the lives of his killers”, Osama Gaweesh, an Iranian media personality and blogger, wrote on social media.
In Gaza, responses to Sinwar’s suicide were mixed. Some mourned his death, while another expressed hope and relief that it would put an end to the damaging conflict that he is alleged to have sparked by Hamas ‘ assault on Israel on October 7, 2023. Across the Arab and Muslim earth, and away from the disaster in Gaza, opinions varied.
One issue, though, was apparent. The video was praised by adherents and even some detractors as proof that a man was killed in a fight but at least was n’t abducted as Israel has claimed he was for the majority of the past year.
In west Gaza, Israel’s government dropped leaflets three days after his death, depicting another image of Sinwar lying dead on a chair, his finger being cut, and blood streaming down his head. ” Sinwar destroyed your life. He hid in a black hole and was vaporized while fearlessly escaping, according to the brochure.
” I do n’t think there is a Palestinian leader of the first rank who died in a confrontation ( like Sinwar ), according to what the leaked Israeli version shows”, said Sadeq Abu Amer, head of the Palestinian Dialogue Group, an Istanbul-based think tank.
Sinwar’s fate was unique. More than a year after the start of the war, Sinwar was killed while seemingly fighting Jewish troops, in contrast to Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh, who was killed in his motel room in Iran or the head of Lebanon’s Hezbollah class, who was killed by numerous large-munitions in an underground vault.
Iran, the Shiite superpower and a major sponsor of Hamas, went further. It contrasted Sinwar’s dying with that of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, Tehran’s adversary.
Iran’s UN Mission claimed in a statement that Saddam had been dragged by US troops into an underwater tunnel while “he begged them not to shoot him despite being armed.” Sinwar, on the other hand, was killed in the open while “facing the enemy”, Iran said.
In a clearly worded statement, the Cairo-based Al-Azhar, the highest couch of Sunni Muslim studying in the world, blasted Israel’s representation of Sinwar as a criminal. Without naming Sinwar, the speech said that the “martyrs of the weight” died defending their territory and their reason.
In Israel, the military’s Arabic-speaking director, Avichay Adraee, described Sinwar as “defeated, outcast, and persecuted”. Some people erected celebrations over the news of the death of the engineer who carried out the attack on October 7.
Israeli media reported soldiers handing out sweets, while a swimmer announcing the news to cheers from a film that was posted online. People of Sderot, a city that was attacked by Hamas insurgents, were filmed dancing on the roads, some wrapped in Jewish colors. On Telegram, some shared photos of a dying Sinwar, likening him to a rat.
However, hostage-related families of victims and their supporters, who want Zionist leaders to use the occasion to take the hostages home, even protested.
Some are energized, not demoralized Susan Abulhawa, one of the most commonly read Arab scholars, said the images released by Israel were a source of pride. Israel” thought that publishing images of Sinwar’s final moments would intimidate us and cause us to feel defeated,” she wrote on X. The footage, in reality, “immerses Sinwar and galvanizes all of us until the very end” ( p. 2 ).
In the Arab lands and Lebanon, some remembered him with admiration, while others expressed fury.
” He died as a warrior, as a martyr”, said Somaia Mohtasib, a Arab displaced from Gaza City.
For Saleh Shonnar, a native of northern Gaza then displaced to the middle, tens of thousands of Palestinians were killed. ” Hundreds, thousands of senior officials were martyred and replaced with new rulers”.
In Khan Younis, Sinwar’s birth, mourning in a bombed-out dome recited the funeral meditation for a Muslim when the system is missing. Israel has kept Sinwar’s system. Numerous men and children participated in the prayer.
And in Wadi al-Zayne, a village in Lebanon’s Chouf area with a major Palestinian inhabitants, Bilal Farhat said that Sinwar’s dying made him a symbol of noble resistance.
He was killed while fighting first on the top lines. It gives him some sort of mysterious hero aura”, Farhat said.
Some Palestinians took to X to condemn Sinwar and ignore his death in comparison to their individual suffering. One participant in a recorded dialogue stated that there is no way to determine how he died. Another blamed him for 18 years of suffering, calling him a” crazy man” who started a war he could n’t win. ” If he is lovely, we had many more lovely ones killed”, one yelled.
The impact of Sinwar’s support and empathy for him after his death is unlikely to alter the Egyptian government’s opinion of October 7 and what followed, according to Abu Amer, the think ship’s director.
” Those who voted in favor of October 7 will continue to do so, and those who voted against it, and they are many, will continue to hold their ideas, even if they show enthusiasm or pity for him.” The majority of Palestinians are then focused on bringing an end to the war, he said.
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Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas, was killed by Israeli forces in Gaza, by a poster circulating among Hindus ( AP photo ).
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