Killing Yahya Sinwar is Israel’s biggest victory so far in the war against Hamas in Gaza. But what next? Is his death a serious blow for Hamas? The organisation he turned into a fighting force that inflicted the biggest defeat on the state of Israel in its history.
He was not killed in a planned special forces operation, but in a chance encounter with Israeli forces in Rafah in southern Gaza.
A photo taken at the scene shows Sinwar, dressed in combat gear, lying dead in the rubble of a building that was hit by a tank shell.