Hamas’ leadership void in a critical moment after the end of Gaza’s “war advice”

The announcement of the death of the main military commander of Hamas, Mohammad Sinwar, of Israel confirms the end of the Council who decided and organized the attacks of 7 October 2023. The question is now how the organization will follow and if his successors could become even more radical in the future.

The confirmation of the death of the main military commander of Hamas Mohammed Sinwar, during an Israeli attack, closes a chapter on the group of elite leaders in the Gaza Strip that orchestrated the events of 7 October 2023.

Sinwar’s death follows that of other central figures who were part of what became known within Hamas as a war advice.

Sinwar, his brother Yahya, Mohammed deif, Marwan Issa and an unidentified member formed the clandestine core that decided and directed the unprecedented attack on Israel, who shook the region and began the conflict still underway in Gaza.

The war consultant, also known as five advice, operated in conditions of extreme confidentiality and security.

Direct meetings among their members were extremely rare. Communications occurred through old technologies, considered safer (such as fixed phones) or by trusted intermediaries.

All this was part of an effort to minimize the risk of interception or group detection.

This level of confidentiality was not only tactical. It was a consequence of the fundamental role of the Council in the strategic decision -making process by Hamas, especially during the preparation of what would become the most fatal and complex attack on the history of the organization.

The well -known members of the Board of Directors included:

• MARWAN (1965-2024): Vice deif and vital vital vital between the Hamas army and its political spheres. Killed in an Israeli plane strike in March 2024.

• A fifth figure, whose identity remains unknown to the public. Head of the organization of the Hamas security apparatus, it was the target of murder attempts before the war and an air strike after the start of the conflict. A source indicates that has undergone serious injuries and can no longer communicate or conduct activities.

The attack of October 7 brought enormous changes to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.

The scale and brutality of the attack surprised observers all over the world, not only for its immediate impact, but for its unprecedented scale.

Hamas’s military preparations took years. They included the construction of huge tunnels and the continuous accumulation of rockets and weapons.

But few analysts, regional characters and not even rival factions of Palestine have predicted the extent of the offensive one.

The group had a rigorous control of the residents of the Gaza Strip for a long time. They have often imposed hard economic measures, such as heavy taxes, to an impoverished population to finance their military development.

However, even within the movement, there seems to be a limited understanding of the scale and the consequences of the plan created by the war council.

The death of the members of the Council raises a fundamental question: what exactly led them to look for a course that many Palestinians have already described as political suicide?

The overwhelming military response of Israel and the following international isolation caused the attack of October 7 increasingly considered a way motivated by despair, without a clear political production strategy, leading to the mass suffering of the civilian population of Gaza Strip.

Now, with the main dead decisions, it may no longer be possible to find out what the deepest motivations were and strategic calculations behind the attack.

What internal debates have occurred within the Council? Were there dissident voices?

The attack was an attempt to obtain regional relevance, a planned provocation in search of changes in the region or a ultimate and desperate effort to break the siege kept so long?

The answers to these questions may have died with the men who conceived the plan.

The dismantling of the war council causes Hamas to face a possible leadership vacuum cleaner in a critical moment.

His military skills were seriously reduced.

His political leadership undergoes intense pressure. He operated in Qatar until November 2024 and today he has unknown.

And its traditional mechanisms of control of the Gaza track were profoundly compromised.

The lack of a centralized strategic command can lead to the fragmentation of Hamas, or to the emergence of new factions, perhaps more radical.

A way can also make a way for the reorganization, if not from Hamas, from other Palestinian characters who can try to fill the gap left open.

The fall of the Hamas war advice marks the end of a dark but powerful internal circle, which made one of the most relevant decisions in the history of movement.

Your inheritance, for the Palestinians, can be a bold resistance or a catastrophic calculation error.

But one point is clear: with his disappearance, a decisive era for Hamas’s leadership is turning to the end.

Source: Terra

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