Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh

August 4 , 2024 10 hrs 0 min 20 0

Top Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh killed in attack on Iran residence.
Haniyeh led Hamas's political operations from exile in Qatar.
In the 1980s and 1990s, Haniyeh served several sentences in Israeli prisons.
After Hamas's win in the 2006 legislative election, he became the Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority government.
However, it was short-lived as the next year he was dismissed from his position by President Mahmoud Abbas in 2007.
Ten years later, in 2017, he was elected the head of Hamas's political wing.
The same year, Haniyeh was named a "specially designated global terrorist" by the United States.