We spoke to Miri Eisin, a retired Israel Defense Forces colonel with a background in military intelligence.
: I wonder if you could just fill in some of the details that we’re still missing about how this operation actually came to be today in the killing of Yahya Sinwar. We’ve heard conflicting reports. One was that they acted on intelligence, the Israelis. And the other one was that they actually just stumbled across him in this building.: One of the things about this war is that it’s a combination of all of the above.
So in this case, it was what you would call the systematic, common, going into trying to find both the terrorists themselves, the shafts that opened down and under. And again, this is basically in accordance to what’s been come out until now, is that they view terrorists inside a building, fired at the building. When they went inside, they found the three people. One of them was Yahya Sinwar and thus ended Yahya Sinwar, who pretty much for the last year was subterranean underground.
And you ask that question and I go, 101 hostages, and I know that that’s not the subject of the day right now, but that’s the subject of the day in Israel, because the implications of Yahya Sinwar being killed, is the opportunity to open up the door to the end of it, not just for the Palestinians, in my heart, can go out to them, for the 101 hostages that Yahya Sinwar was holding in the Gaza Strip.: Okay.
And I think in its own way, as I look at that, that’s to me the opportunity today. Meaning he was such a hardliner, he preferred to execute those six people rather for Israel to get to them. And today he died as he died without hostages around them. But that was part of that aspect then. So I take it one step at a time. There’s still 101 there. We need to find them as well.
I don’t know how to resolve that. I’d like to see the world call them out more in that sense. On why are they calling for our annihilation, this isn’t about the Palestinians. I feel that I, Miri, have done more to help the Palestinians in my lifetime than the Hamas have ever done, let alone Hezbollah or Iran. So pose it as being about that is a challenge.
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