A few months ago, in a post on how Israel was not going to use the COIN doctrine in Gaza, I wrote the following:

There’s one Hamas guy in particular who needs to be killed asap: its military chief Yahya Sinwar, who has casually and bluntly said that Palestinian casualties are “necessary sacrifices., and more of them mean that Hamas will “have the Israelis right where we want them.” These are the people and the strategy being enabled by the likes of John Minto and his concerns about Palestinian lives.

And now they’ve killed Sinwar, although this is not “the most iconic photo in history” (Eyal Yakoby)…

… not even Israeli history.

Rather amazingly this was not the result of some targeted strike by Israeli Special Forces but just “ordinary” combat (National Review):

Sinwar was apparently found completely by chance. A young IDF tanker merely nine months into his first deployment, doing a random patrol, spotted a terrorist poking his head out a window. An online friend suggested that the American analogy to this would be like Osama bin Laden getting taken out by a random artillery regiment of the Iowa National Guard instead of SEAL Team Six.

Then there’s this latest piece of news.

John Minto has an increasing number of UNRWA teaching positions opening up.

BTW, Sinwar was killed in the part of Gaza known as Rafah, the place VP Kamala Harris had threatened Israel with “consequences” if they invaded.

More on the story here (Times of Israel), including some background on Sinwar and his victims over the years:

He was serving four life terms for the killing of two Israeli soldiers, as well as four Palestinians he suspected of cooperating with Israel, when he became the most senior of 1,027 Palestinian security prisoners released in exchange for kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit in 2011.

He had received life-saving brain surgery while he was a prisoner, as recounted by the dentist who identified the tumor in a New York Times article in May. That same dentist’s nephew was killed on October 7.

By contrast other MSM treated poor Mr Sinwar a little more gently, starting with the Washington Post writing of Sinwar with terms like “Hardscrabble upbringing”, “resolute,”. But then this is the same piece of toilet paper that described ISIS leader Abu al-Baghdadi as an “austere religious scholar” after Trump deleted him in 2019.

Best summed up here by the Babylon Bee.