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Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh
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- 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.
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