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Israel. On 31 July 2024, Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of Hamas, was assassinated along with his personal bodyguard in the Iranian capital Tehran by an apparent Israeli attack. [ 5] Haniyeh was killed in his accommodation in a military-run guesthouse after attending the inauguration ceremony for Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian.
Yahya Ibrahim Hassan al-Sinwar was born on 7 or 29 October 1962, in the Khan Yunis refugee camp, when the Gaza Strip was under Egyptian rule, where he spent his early years. [ 26] His family were expelled from or fled from Al-Majdal Asqalan ( Arabic: مدينة مجدل, romanized : Medīna Majal ), [ 27] now known as Ashkelon, during the 1948 ...
t. e. Ismail Haniyeh[ f] ( Arabic: إسماعيل هنية, romanized : Ismāʿīl Haniyyah[ 8][ 5][ 9] pronunciation ⓘ; [ g] c. 1962 or 1963[ c] – 31 July 2024) was a Palestinian politician who served as chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau from May 2017 until his assassination in July 2024. [ 11][ 12] He also served as prime minister of ...
Ismail Haniyeh, political leader of Hamas since 2017, has been the most visible leader of the group during Israel’s war in Gaza, and was key in ongoing ceasefire and hostage release negotiations.
Hamas on Tuesday named Yahya Sinwar, its top official in Gaza who masterminded the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel, as its new leader in a dramatic sign of the power of the Palestinian militant group's ...
CAIRO (Reuters) -Hamas named its Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar as successor to former political chief Ismail Haniyeh, who was assassinated in Tehran last week, the group said on Tuesday, in a move that ...
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in 2012. After winning the Palestinian elections, Hamas leaders made multi-national diplomatic tours abroad. In April 2006, Mahmoud al-Zahar (then foreign minister) visited Saudi Arabia, Syria, Kuwait, Bahrein, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Libya, Algeria, Sudan and ...
He was elected to Hamas’ main decision-making body, the Politburo, in 2017 as the political leader of Hamas in Gaza branch. However, he has since become the Politburo’s de facto leader ...