Hamas head Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind who planned and carried out the October 7th massacre in Israel last year, is no longer among the living. Word came out late last night that an Israeli drone happened to catch a masked man running into a damaged building in Rafah; after the building was destroyed by anti-tank fire, Israeli soldiers used DNA to find out they had just eliminated the man who caused so much carnage in the Middle East. In some places in Israel, news of Sinwar’s death was met with the same sense of relief and elation that greeted the death of Osama Bin Laden in America in 2011. ABC News correspondent Jordana Miller appeared on 710 WOR’s Len Berman and Michael Riedel in the Morning program to explain what Sinwar’s elimination means now for the Gaza and Israel.
“[October 7th] really will go down as really a modern-day pogrom,” Miller reminded Berman and Riedel. “The fact that he was killed was met with a lot of relief, and the question is what comes next. Will this provide the Israeli prime minister with an off-ramp to now extradite the war in the Gaza Strip? Advisers around the prime minister have consistently told us at ABC News that killing Sinwar would be a dramatic move and help end the war, so the question is, you know, what are we going to see on the ground?”
Miler then elaborated on whether Sinwar’s death could mean an end to the war in Israel and the Middle East. “We know that President Biden is already talking with the Prime Minister and Secretary of State Blinken is already talking with the mediators… and it looks like there’s going to be a push now with whoever replaces Sinwar, which will likely be a political leader in Doha. [There could be] negotiations to wrap up the war, get out the 97 hostages, the dead and living, and start a phased process of Hamas turning over their power and their weapons to anther intermediary governing body. It’s going to be challenging, it’s not going to happen overnight, but that’s the hope.”
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