The killing is a setback for Hamas, but its ideology will only get strengthened if violence continues Haniyeh was born in 1962 in the Shati refugee camp north of Gaza City to Palestinian parents who, in 1948, had been displaced from their home in Ashkelon, now in Israel. “The residence of Ismail Haniyeh, Head of the political office of Hamas …
Hamas is likely to pick senior member Khaled Meshaal as its new leader after Wednesday's ‘assassination’ of Ismail Haniyeh, apparently by Israel, in Iran's capital, Tehran, where Haniyeh attended the swearing-in of Masoud Pezeshkian, Iran's new President. FILE - Khaled Mashaal, at the time, leader of the militant group Hamas, that has governed Gaza since a 2007 takeover, speaks during …
Khaled Meshaal has been tipped as one of several possible candidates to become Hamas’s new political leader after the assassination of Ismael Haniyeh. A senior figure of the Palestinian militant group, Meshaal became known around the world in 1997 after Israeli agents injected him with poison in a botched assassination attempt on a street outside his office in Amman, Jordan. …
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