Ismail Haniyeh has been re-elected because the chief of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, officers stated on Sunday, tightening its management over the group that guidelines the Gaza Strip and has fought a number of violent conflicts with Israel.
Since 2017 Hamas chief Haniyeh has managed the group’s political actions in Gaza, the Israeli-occupied West Bank and the largely diaspora exterior Gaza, dividing his time between Turkey and Qatar for the previous two years.
He directed Hamas into an 11-day battle with Israel in May that killed greater than 250 in Gaza and 13 in Israel. The Egyptian-mediated ceasefire has principally been held since then.
“Brother Ismail Haniyeh has been re-elected as the head of the movement’s political office for the second time,” a Palestinian official advised Reuters after an inner election by social gathering members. His time period shall be of 4 years.
At the age of 58, Haniyah was the appropriate hand of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the founding father of Hamas in Gaza, earlier than the wheelchair-bound cleric was assassinated in 2004.
Haniyeh led Hamas’ entry into politics in 2006, when he received a shock victory within the Palestinian parliamentary elections, defeating the divided Fatah social gathering led by President Mahmoud Abbas.
He turned prime minister shortly after the January 2006 victory, however Hamas – thought of a terrorist group by the United States, Israel and the European Union – was shunned by the worldwide neighborhood.
After a short civil battle, Hamas seized Gaza from the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority, which restricted self-rule within the Israeli-occupied West Bank in 2007. Israel has since led a blockade of Gaza, citing threats from Hamas.
Haniyeh’s victory restricted inner elections, by which the group’s Gaza chief, Yehya al-Sinwar, additionally received a second time period in March. Further votes had been delayed due to an escalation in May’s violence.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
