Yahya Sinwar is nothing but a seasoned fighter, well known to the Israelis, with remarkable precision. Without a doubt, he is a skilled combatant with high morale and extensive experience.
Nevertheless, like any other figure, his condition has specific limits and vulnerabilities. Naturally, the arena is not conducive for him to showcase all his capabilities, and he does not have many options. He fights and flees, and this cycle of attack and retreat diminishes his effectiveness on the ground.
Yet, Israeli media has begun to inflate his persona and magnify his stature to the point of portraying him as an invincible leader—a hero unlike any other—who single-handedly leads the struggle with his gifted abilities, as if no one else could match him. And let it be known: the Zionists possess unparalleled skill in playing the victim and dramatizing their narrative.
This media claims that Sinwar is a fierce hero with extraordinary powers beyond those of an ordinary human. Still, they know very well that he is being hunted every day and every hour, and the possibility of his elimination is far from excluded.
Due to this global promotional campaign led by Israeli media, if such a person were to be eliminated—God forbid—and especially if his remains were recovered, it would be a devastating, perhaps fatal, blow to the Palestinian resistance, which would lose one of its foundational pillars.
This is nothing but an Israeli tactical game: a strategy of inflating and glorifying Yahya Sinwar, followed by deploying every available means—regardless of their brutality or violation of human principles—to eliminate him. And once they do, they will celebrate his remains as if they had slain a wicked giant descending from the sky, claiming that the “Invincible Defense Army” destroyed him due to his cunning.
The Israeli army is crumbling, and its morale is at rock bottom. The same man who once threatened to annihilate Iran and invade it with his soldiers, weapons, missiles, and aircraft now sleeps with one eye open toward the north, fearing an attack from Hezbollah, one of Iran’s arms on Israel’s borders. He has begun to downplay his own status and recognize that he is not at the level that was once promoted.
The plan to eliminate Sinwar is a propaganda project par excellence, personally led by Netanyahu, who desperately needs such campaigns due to his lack of resources and inability to secure a swift victory. He seeks to escape the immense pressure or, at the very least, exit the political arena with his head held high—only to return in another phase. In other words, after eliminating Sinwar, he will exit through the door with relative popularity and re-enter through the window in the not-so-distant future with heightened acclaim, because he knows how to manipulate crises to undermine the governments that follow him.
The operation to eliminate Yahya Sinwar is one of Netanyahu’s political maneuvers. He wants to downplay what happened to him in the Gaza war and reduce it to a single operation targeting a leader, then declare victory, while Israeli and Western media serve him in this game.
But we know well that what is happening in Gaza is, at its core, a revolution by the rightful owners of the land—those Palestinians whose properties were seized in 1948, whose homes and heritage were taken, and upon whose land Israel was built. They were then confined to a tiny strip of land called Gaza. This is not an attack by a giant named Yahya Sinwar with his forces driven by hatred toward Jews, nor is it a battle that will end with his elimination and a triumphant Zionist state.
The Palestinian resistance, with all its branches, must confront this malicious scheme and educate the Palestinian people about Netanyahu’s intentions. They must understand that if Sinwar and others like him are martyred—God forbid—there are thousands more like them, and the struggle will continue until the land is reclaimed, or at the very least, until the most basic stolen rights of the Palestinian people are restored in this phase of resistance.