Sinwar's killing ends a one-year manhunt but not the invasion that his decision to attack and kidnap Israeli civilians last year all but guaranteed.
Few world leaders have spent as much time as Sinwar contemplating the manner and meaning of their death... the novel's theme is martyrdom, and Sinwar seems to have lived so as to make his own violent death predictable.
Hamas had been lobbing rockets into Israel for years, and Israel had reckoned that it could tolerate them... Sinwar's October 7 attack seems to have had as its only strategic goal the disruption of that status quo.
Israel says no hostages died in the operation, but tens of thousands of equally blameless Gazans have found their fates forcibly intertwined with Sinwar's.
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