Sinwar might be gone, but Israel’s mission is far from over – POLITICO

Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe.

In his final minutes, sitting slumped and wounded in a chair, Yahya Sinwar — the man who masterminded the worst mass slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust — seemingly threw a stick or object toward an Israeli drone monitoring him.

Was it defiance or fatalism? Everyone seems to be drawing different conclusions. But soon after, the Hamas leader was delivered a coup de grâce by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), as the wrecked building he was in was struck by two 120-millimeter tank shells.