After Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack in Israel, in which about 1,200 people were killed, the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) called Yahya Sinwar, the leader of the Islamist militant group in Gaza and a key architect of the attack. “a dead man walking”.

On October 17, 2024, a year after the war in which over 42,000 Palestinians, a vast majority of them women and children, were killed, the IDF announced that it killed its most wanted man in an operation in Gaza’s Rafah.

For over a year, Sinwar was Israel’s most wanted man. With him dead, Israel has taken a major tactical victory and dealt a heavy blow to Hamas.
How did Sinwar, who was born in a refugee camp in Khan Younis in southern Gaza in 1962, become Israel’s most powerful enemy? The Hindu's International Affairs Editor Stanly Johny explains.

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