When reports of Yahya Sinwar’s death first swirled around Gaza, Enas immediately hoped they were true.

The 55-year-old Palestinian had lived a relatively comfortable and safe life working as a teacher in the heavily populated strip, but all that was lost after Hamas launched the Oct 7 attacks.

She and her family were forced from their home by Israel’s massive retaliation and had to head south. While they fled Israeli air strikes and offensives, she was sure the man who had brought all this on their heads was safely hiding in a tunnel.

“I was hoping for Sinwar’s death, because the army said his death will end the war.”

When she heard reports on Thursday that Israel thought it had killed the head of Hamas, she was at first happy.

“I felt that the war would end,” she told The Telegraph.

But when she watched the footage of his last moments harried by a drone in a ruined building before he was killed by a tank shell, she quickly felt ashamed for her previous criticism.