{"id":82933,"date":"2024-08-06T20:36:22","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T20:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/06\/hamas-names-yahya-sinwar-as-new-overall-leader\/"},"modified":"2024-08-06T20:36:22","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T20:36:22","slug":"hamas-names-yahya-sinwar-as-new-overall-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/06\/hamas-names-yahya-sinwar-as-new-overall-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamas names Yahya Sinwar as new overall leader"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Hamas has named Yahya Sinwar as its new overall chief, replacing Ismail Haniyeh who was killed in Tehran last week.<\/p>\n

Since 2017, Sinwar has served as the group’s leader inside the Gaza strip. He will now become leader of its political wing.<\/p>\n

It is believed Sinwar remains in the Gaza strip, though his current whereabouts are unknown.<\/p>\n

The announcement comes at a moment of heightened tension in the Middle East, as Iran and its allies threaten retaliation for the killing of Haniyeh, which they blame on Israel. Israel has not commented. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“The Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas announces the selection of leader Yahya Sinwar as the head of the political bureau of the movement,” a statement from Hamas said.<\/p>\n

Sinwar currently tops Israel\u2019s most-wanted list. Israel\u2019s security agencies believe he masterminded the planning and execution of the 7 October 2023 attacks, which left over 1,200 people dead and 251 taken back into Gaza as hostages.<\/p>\n

Details of how Sinwar\u2019s leadership of the group\u2019s political bureau will function are yet to be released by Hamas.<\/p>\n

The 61-year-old has not been seen in public since the attacks in October, and is believed to be hiding \u201c10 storeys underground\u201d in Gaza, US Secretary of State<\/a> Antony Blinken said in June.<\/p>\n

In the late 1980s, Sinwar founded the Hamas security service known as Majd, which among other things targeted alleged Palestinian collaborators with Israel.<\/p>\n

Sinwar has spent much of his life in Israeli jail – and after his third arrest in 1988 he was sentenced to four life terms in prison.<\/p>\n

However, he was among 1,027 Palestinian and Israeli Arab prisoners released by Israel in 2011 in exchange for an Israeli soldier held captive for over five years by Hamas.<\/p>\n

He later returned to his position as a prominent leader in Hamas and was appointed head of the group’s political bureau in the Gaza Strip in 2017.<\/p>\n

The US includes Sinwar on its blacklist of “international terrorists”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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