GAZA, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- The Islamic Hamas movement has elected an ex-prisoner as the top leader of the Gaza Strip, al-Jazeera reported on Monday. Yehya al-Sinwar, who spent 22 years in Israeli jails, was released in October 2011 in an Egyptian-brokered swap deal. The al-Jazeera r...
GAZA, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- The Islamic Hamas movement has elected an ex-prisoner as the top leader of the Gaza Strip, al-Jazeera reported on Monday. Yehya al-Sinwar was released from an Israeli jail in October 2011 in an Egyptian-brokered swap deal. The al-Jazeera report said that Sin...
Hamas sources, who requested anonymity, said the vote would be held “this week” and the result announced “next week”. Sinwar was elected to the post in 2017. The poll comes ahead of the May 22 Palestinian legislative elections, the first Palestinian vote in 15 years. (The New Arab, ...
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More than a million people have fled their homes in the Gaza Strip ahead of an expected Israel invasion that seeks to eliminate Hamas’ leadership after its deadly incursion.
He replaced Haniyeh as Hamas leader in Gaza in early 2017 and was re-elected in 2021, later surviving an assassination attempt. Three years later, following Haniyeh's own eventual assassination in Tehran, Sinwar would succeed him once more as political chief. ...
He is widely believed to be behind the unprecedented 2016 killing of another top Hamas commander, Mahmoud Ishtewi, in an internal power struggle. He also married after his release. In 2017, he was elected head of Hamas’ political bureau in Gaza. Sinwar worked with Haniyeh to realign the ...
Hamas was elected to power in 2007, after Israel withdrew from Gaza during the 2005 Disengagement. But most Gazans believed - even before the military operation - that the Palestinian Authority (PA)'s Fatah should be given power in Gaza, with 88% of respondents agreeing to the statement"the...
Meshaal announced from Doha, Qatar that Haniya has been elected as the new chief of the movement. The announcement was made jointly between Qatar and Gaza via the video conference system. Hamas spokesman said the announcement was jointly made after Haniya and other Hamas leaders in Gaza were una...
He was elected in 2017 as the head of the movement's political bureau in Gaza, and in 2021, he was re-elected for a second four-year term during the movement's internal elections. Sinwar's house has been bombed multiple times, and he is described as a cautious figure who rarely speak...