Death of Yahya Sinwar in Gaza War — What’s Next?

News reports of the death of the Hamas leader began to leak out yesterday. Today more details are being revealed. One of his last acts, it seems, as Sinwar lay gravely injured by an Israeli tank shell explosion was… to turn toward a hovering drone monitoring him and throw a stick at it…

as he was expiring. A forensic after-death report by a pathologist indicated that the cause of death was a ‘bullet to the head’.

It is often said that you cannot kill a cause by killing an individual person, no matter how that person is considered by adversaries. Is the Palestinian cause now dead?

A question to be asked, and answered, on the death of a reviled Sinwar is — What’s next?

Will the death of Yahya Sinwar bring a pause in the war — or will politics, the state of Israeli politics and US politics, demand that the war continue and expand regionally and further?