The story of Sinwar's demise is something out of the movies. The soldiers responsible for the greatest achievement on the Gaza front since the war began literally stumbled on Sinwar by chance. They are not frontline combat troops. They come from BISLACH, the Hebrew acroynm for the IDF's Infantry Commanders and Combat Training School. While these guys are certainly officers in the making, they are definitely not the stars of the Israeli military. When you hear about operations to take out high value targets, you usually hear unit names like Sayeret Matkal or Shaldag. The heroes of today's operation, however, don't even belong to a cohesive unit. They are all trainees. During time of war, instead of just sitting in the classroom, they get grouped together as a makeshift unit. They have no clearly defined role. They receive this or that task to perform on the battlefield depending on the needs of the day. Today they were clearing up an area and, purely by chance, boom, they brought down the most wanted man. The funny thing here is that the finest minds in the Israeli military have been working nonstop for the last year to lure Sinwar into a trap. The finest commando units have been chomping on the bit, hoping to get a stab at Sinwar. In the end, however, the people who did the deed were simple, run-of-the-mill soldiers. Even President Joe Biden is trying to get a piece of the credit. "With our intelligence help, the IDF relentlessly pursued Hamas’s leaders, flushing them out of their hiding places and forcing them onto the run," says the official statement about Sinwar's death on the White House website. Failure is an orphan, but success has many fathers.
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