The new footage shattered the image Israel's propaganda machine has tried so hard to peddle that the 62-year-old Hamas leader was "hiding in an underground tunnel" in Gaza and "using Israeli hostages and Palestinian civilians as human shields."
American activist Guy Christensen released a video on his Instagram page (@guychristensen_) commenting on the footage widely circulated on social media.
"Israel has spent the last year painting Sinwar as a coward, as someone who abandoned his own people, as a billionaire who lives in Saudi Arabia who is staying in a fancy hotel as his people are slaughtered," Christensen said.
The drone footage released by Israel showing Sinwar's final moments "proved the complete opposite," he stressed.
Shortly after killing Sinwar, Israel released the drone footage of Sinwar sitting in an armchair in a destroyed building after it had been hit by an Israeli tank shell with the blast leaving the Hamas leader incapacitated.
The video showed Sinwar, wearing military fatigues and a traditional Palestinian keffiyeh, throwing an object at the drone in what appeared to be his very last moments.
He had exchanged gunfire with Israeli soldiers and used all the hand grenades in his possession against them, leaving one in critical condition, before succumbing to his injuries, according to various Israeli reports.
The release of the footage by the Israeli army left many around the world wondering why Israel released a video that showed fearless acts by Sinwar and catapulted the Hamas leader among millions of Palestinians, regionally and even internationally, as an iconic fighter against Zionism and the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land -- almost overnight.
Realizing their gaffe, the Israeli army tried to save the day by re-releasing an undated video depicting Sinwar escorting his wife and children into the safety of a tunnel on the eve of or right before 7 October to suggest that the man put the safety of his immediate kin over the interests of his Palestinian people.
The Israeli army did not realize that many readers might conclude that the leader of a resistance movement which basis its fighting strategy of attacking the occupation army from tunnels would use a tunnel as a lung for commandeering his the battle.
It was a silly ploy and it did not work.
Thousands of Palestinians in under-bombardment Gaza joined funeral prayers for Sinwar across the strip.
And thousands of users of Western social media in the Arab and Muslim world - and beyond among pro-Palestinian supported - flooded censor-heavy, anti-Palestinian platforms with Sinwar pictures as cover pictures and images of his last moments throwing the last rock at Israeli soldiers.
Who was Yahya Sinwar?
Yahya Sinwar was born in 1962 in Khan Younis in southern Gaza to a family of Palestinian refugees expelled by Zionist militias in Ashkelon in the south of Historic Palestine in 1948.
He spent 22 years in prison in Ashkelon for his resistance activities before he was released in the famous Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange deal in 2011.
On Saturday, Nabih Awadha, a Lebanese comrade of Sinwar in Ashkelon prison told Al Jazeera that Yahya was fearless in his jail years, spending four years digging a tunnel for a breakout of the Israeli jail before being caught.
In a famous televised speech several years back, Sinwar, then a leading member of Hamas, said he would rather be killed or assassinated by Israel and die as a martyr rather than die a meaningless from COVID or from a stroke.
Many observers credit Sinwar as the mastermind of the Aqsa Flood Operation against Israeli targets in the Gaza Envelope on 7 October 2023, which shattered the illusion of Israeli military and intelligence invincibility.
Hamas chose Sinwar, its top official in Gaza, as the new leader of its political bureau following Ismail Haniyeh’s assassination by Israel in Tehran on 31 July.
In recent weeks, various reports suggested that Sinwar reorganised the military structures of Hamas in Gaza and was personally leading battles against Israeli troops in the south of the Strip.
Until his death, Sinwar insisted that Hamas would not sign any ceasefire in the Gaza war without the full Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and an acceptable captive-prisoners exchange that would secure the release of thousands of the nearly 10,000 Palestinians imprisoned in Israeli jails.
"The fact is what Israel did today was turn him into a symbol of resistance," Christensen said, emphasising that groups such as Palestine's Hamas and Lebanon's Hezbollah were created "in response to Israeli brutality."
A second American activist known for her pro-Palestinian views (@tesssaidthat) posted a video on TikTok showing her express disbelief upon seeing Sinwar's last moments.
In the nearly 300,000-hit video, she refers to Hamas as the "H group" to evade the so-called "shadow-ban" -- when the social media algorithm limits traffic for certain content -- targeting words such as Hamas, Gaza and Palestine to undermine pro-Palestinian voices.
"Are you guys as confused as I am? Because I was told all the leaders of the H group (Hamas) are billionaires living in Qatar ... that the H group hides among the civilian population and uses them as human shields."
She stressed the claims made throughout Israel's year-long assault on Gaza were used to justify the targeting of "every single hospital, school, university, mosque, (sic) bakery" in civilian-packed Gaza.
"Something's not adding up here. What else could they possibly have lied to us about?" she concluded.
The US activists smart videos and the reach they garnered were no fluke.
Millions around the world - and in Western capitals that support Israel - are horrified by Israel's war on Gaza that has so far killed more than 42,600 Palestinians and wounded more than 100,000, mostly women and children,
The Israeli war on Gaza, deemed genocidal by the International Court of Justice, has displaced the vast majority of Palestinians in Gaza as more than two-thirds of the buildings in the territory have been destroyed.
Israel has also imposed an airtight siege on the strip since the start of its war last October, preventing aid from entering the Strip and leaving hundreds of thousands of the 2.4 million population on the edge of famine.
Many in the world - and in the the US which arms the genocide - are horrified by that!
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