[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A Navy SEAL involved in the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden claims Israel is 'showing us how to win wars' by taking out Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.
Retired Senior Chief Petty Officer Rob O'Neill said Israel's strategy of targeting leaders of the terrorist group was the right one.
Israel said Sinwar was killed on Thursday when he was cornered in a building in Gaza by Israeli soldiers who spotted Hamas soldiers inside. After an exchange of fire, a tank shell was said to have hit the structure and collapsed it.
Graphic images then circulated online purporting to show the body of the Hamas leader with Israeli soldiers surrounding it.
'What Israel is doing right now is they're showing us how to win a war. They're taking out the top leaders. They're going to keep doing it,' O'Neill told Newsmax.
'And they're proving to everyone, including like, even right now, our president will say, 'Well, now he's dead, we can work on a cease-fire.
'You don't don't let someone start a war and then whine about a cease-fire... Israel 'did a great job, and I couldn't be more proud.'
O'Neill said killing Sinwar 'takes away a lot of [Hamas'] abilities' and was a big morale boost for Israel a year after the terrorist group's massacre on October 7, 2023.
'This is huge for them. And I love that they were able to do it with soldiers. So the last thing that Yahya saw was probably the Israeli flag,' he said.
O'Neill said Iran was still the biggest enemy, but that 'our supposed ally in Qatar' needed to round up the Hamas leaders hiding on its soil and give them to Israel.
The former special forces operative felt the same way about the 9/11 plotters, telling DailyMail.com in August they should have been executed years ago. O'Neill added he would have carried out the death penalty himself and criticized the plea deal that spared their lives.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed - the architect of the 2001 plot that killed almost 3,000 people - and two accomplices Walid Bin Attash and Mustafa al-Hawsawi accepted life sentences to avoid a lengthy criminal trial and the death penalty.
O'Neill said the agreement was a slap in the face for the families of the 2,657 American victims who waited 23 years for justice. Family members of the victims reacted with fury as news of the plea deal emerged, on a day when more evidence of Saudi Arabia's complicity in 9/11 was revealed in a New York courtroom.
Montana native O'Neill and members of SEAL Team Six stormed Bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on May 2, 2011, and cornered him. He claims he shot the most wanted man in the world in the head, ending a global manhunt that had consumed the West for years. He came forward in 2014 and named himself as the man who fired the kill shots. 
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