Hamas: Sinwar as head of the movement, succeeding Haniyeh

The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) announced the selection of its leader in the Gaza Strip, Yahya Sinwar, to be head of the movement’s political bureau, succeeding the late Ismail Haniyeh, who was assassinated in the Iranian capital, Tehran, about a week ago.

The movement said in a brief statement published on Tuesday evening, “The Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas announces the selection of Commander Yahya Sinwar as head of the movement’s political bureau, succeeding the martyr leader Ismail Haniyeh, may God have mercy on him.”

Sinwar was born in 1962. Israel arrested him several times and sentenced him to four life sentences before the resistance freed him in a prisoner exchange deal in 2011, known as the Gilad Shalit deal.

He then returned to his activity in the Martyr Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, and was elected head of the movement in the Gaza Strip in 2017 and again in 2021.

It is noteworthy that Israel considers Sinwar the architect of the Al-Aqsa Flood operation on October 7, 2023, which inflicted human and military losses on it and shook the image of its intelligence and security services before the world. It declared that his liquidation is one of the main goals of its current war on Gaza.

Source: Al Jazeera