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Israel kills its prime target – but Sinwar’s death seems down to chance, not precise planning (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 4 weeks ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/globalnews@lemmy.zip

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After a year-long hunt, IDF soldiers encountered and killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar without knowing it was him

Archived version: https://archive.ph/aZl8i

SpinScore: https://spinscore.io/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fworld%2F2024%2Foct%2F17%2Fisrael-idf-prime-target-yahya-sinwar-death-hamas

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[–] Sundial@lemm.ee 13 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

According to the initial reports, they were not there on an assassination operation and had no prior intelligence that they could be in the vicinity of the elusive Hamas leader, architect of the 7 October attacks, the man Israel most wanted to kill. It was only after they took a closer look at his face and found identity documents on him that the troops realised they had got Sinwar.

I mean when you more or less destroy 2/3rds of a region chances are good you'll hit some kind of target. So much for Israeli precision and advanced intelligence.

[–] LNRDrone@sopuli.xyz 15 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah they were there just shooting civilians as usual accidentally got someone important lol.