• Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    Israel made a mistake releasing the footage. This entire time they have been claiming he was a coward hiding in a bunker, while he is on camera staring down the drone coming to confirm his death, wearing full battle regalia, defiantly throwing scrap metal at the drone while missing a hand. Regardless of your opinion of Sinwar, this is an objective optical failure that will play against Israel.

    Israel thinks on video game logic, if you beat the big bad boss everyone gives up, but that’s not what has happened. Sinwar is now more popular in death than he was in life among Palestinians, who actually believed him to be hiding, and not fighting on the frontlines as a 61 year old man.

    Anyone who thinks this is the start of a ceasefire has seriously misjudged the material conditions of Palestine.

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      Right-wing extremists leading Israel know very well what to do to keep this conflict going. They’re making sure that any peace period will be temporary.

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      Yep, despite confirming with the drone that he was wounded and unarmed, they decided not to risk anything and just shot a tank shell at the building.

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      Speaking of optics: Did Israel mention why he was in battle fatigues? I was given the impression that he’d be dressed as a doctor / ambulance driver / UN worker etc but he looks suspiciously like a soldier.

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          24 days ago

          That looks very much like the classic totally unverifiable headline that has bought modern news media a terrible name… btw you’ve got a fantastic user name for this topic.

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        That entire article is pure conjecture sourced from the IDF, an organization known to lie and dehumanize their opponents.

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          Exactly, the puppet is obvious. I also first put on my full combat regalia when I’m supposedly trying to flee in a rush…

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        On 16 October 2024, at approximately 10 am, IDF troops noticed a suspicious figure entering and exiting a building in their vicinity, after which an order was given to engage. At 3 pm an IDF drone detected three gunmen exiting the building, two covered in blankets and clearing the path for a third.

        The soldiers opened fire and the group scattered, two entering one building and the third, later proven to be Sinwar, entering another building and climbing to the second floor. An IDF soldier was severely injured in the firefight that ensued.

        A tank fired a shell at Sinwar’s location, and infantry soldiers began to sweep the building. Sinwar lobbed two grenades at them; one exploded and one did not.

        The troops then pulled back and sent in a drone which detected an injured figure with a covered face attempting to knock the drone out of the air with a stick. At the time, it was not known that the masked militant was Sinwar.

        Up against a 3 soldiers, a tank, and a drone

        A refugee born in an Apartheid, from parents who were ethnically cleansed, killed on the front lines by a militarily superior force engaged in genocide

        Definitely a stark analogy