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. …
