Hamas said its former chief in Gaza, Ismail Haniya, was elected overall head of the Palestinian Islamist group on Saturday May 06,2017, succeeding Khaled Meshaal.
Haniya, seen as a pragmatist within the movement, is expected to remain in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian enclave run by Hamas since 2007, unlike Meshaal who lives in exile in Doha and has completed the maximum two terms in office.
“The Hamas Shura Council on Saturday elected Ismail Haniya as head of the movement’s political bureau,” the group’s official website announced.
He beat contenders Mussa Abu Marzuk and Mohamed Nazzal in a videoconference vote of the ruling council’s members in Gaza, the West Bank and outside the Palestinian territories.
The 54-year-old with a salt-and-pepper beard takes charge of Hamas as it seeks to ease its international isolation while not marginalising hardliners within the movement.
About Hamas
- Hamas s a Palestinian Sunni-Islamic fundamentalist organization.
- It has a social service wing, Dawah, and a military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades.
- It has been the de facto governing authority of the Gaza Strip since its takeover of that area in 2007
- It is regarded, either in whole or in part, as a terrorist organization by several countries and international organizations, most notably by the United States and the European Union
- Hamas was founded in 1987, soon after the First Intifada broke out, as an offshoot of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood,which in its Gaza branch had been non-confrontational towards Israel, refrained from resistance, and was hostile to the PLO
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