What is most humanly striking in Sinwar’s death is the last gesture: the one in which the butcher of Gaza (so called because of the violence against his fellow citizens and “brothers”) concentrates the residual drops of energy of a life, his , which is now fading away. Sinwar’s last gesture is the throwing of the stick. It is not a prayer, which could be suitable for a “martyr”, however fundamentalist, and it is not even a phrase dedicated to his people, as one might think for a patriotic hero, as some distorted vision claims to frame him.
No, his farewell is a gesture of hatred and war, the throwing of a stick.

“Deathly wounded – writes one of the most famous exponents of Italian Islam – after having given orders to his men to leave him there to save himself, in camouflage, sitting in an armchair in one of the many houses in Gaza gutted by the fury of the Israeli bombs, Yahya Sinwar as a final act hurls the most primordial of weapons against a very modern drone. His figure stands out with an almost mythological force, embodying the image of a contemporary David against the technological Goliath”.

Note the use of the image of (King) David who would be personified by an anti-Semitic leader like Sinwar. “His death is not just an event; it is a powerful symbol, a painful chapter in the long narrative of a people fighting for their liberation.” Yet in this symbolic gesture there is no freedom and there is no religion. It may be powerful but it is an act of hate. It will transmit hatred and generate hatred, there is no doubt, and mourning. It is to be hoped that life will prevail.