“It was not really necessary to provide all the details” which have “contributed to the myth of Sinwar” misguided

I too reckon, Israel has lost the propaganda war -- not winning the military war either
Israel slippin' It's not a smart move They have handed an image of victory, on a platter, to Hamas

From: The Washington Post October 20, 2024
Propaganda war: Israel, Hamas battle over final images of Yahya Sinwar

Israel is trying to portray images of the Hamas leader, Yahya Sinwar’s final moments as those of a fugitive
His supporters have seized on the same visuals to glorify him as a fighter.

The Israeli military’s year-long pursuit of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar finally ended Wednesday in a battle that took his life
Now comes the battle to define his death.

Israel and its allies are racing to portray Sinwar’s demise in the Gaza Strip as that of a fugitive — hunted, flushed from his underground hideout and gunned down on the run

The military released graphic photos of his corpse and drone footage of his final moments, showing a wounded figure slumped in a chair, alone and bleeding A “coward’s end” “a rat out of his hole” and “a worm” were some of the phrases used by Israeli commentators

Sinwar’s supporters have seized on aspects of the same images — the dirty combat fatigues, a Palestinian kaffiyeh wrapped around his face — to glorify him as a warrior who went down fighting

The video, they say, shows not defeat but defiance, a mortally wounded fighter who finds the strength to hurl, however futilely, a piece of wood, at the drone with his one good arm

In much of the Arab world at least, Israel is losing the propaganda war, according to experts in the region

Within hours, the images released by the Israel Defense Forces were put on posters and plastered on walls in Jenin and other militant strongholds in the West Bank Users on Arab social media turned them into memes to celebrate what they viewed as a heroic end

Iran’s mission to the United Nations released a statement contrasting Sinwar’s final actions with those of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, whom it described as betraying his supporters by having “begged” for his life when pulled out of a hole by American forces in 2003