The death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar is likely to intensify the years-long insurgency he started against Israel, experts say, with the group changing its methods as its leadership gets decimated.
While Israel is fighting a semi-conventional war against Hamas, it fails to understand the fight the group wants, which is “an open-ended insurgency on the ground against Israeli forces in Gaza,” Hussein Ibish, a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, DC, told CNN.
Hamas’ war “has just started,” Ibish said, and it is already taking the form of “disparately organized Hamas cells of guerillas and insurgents” that do not require an “integrated, vertical command and control structure.”
The group is likely to survive using low-grade, non-sophisticated weaponry, he said, including…
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