
Who can be the new leader of Hamas
Last Updated on August 2, 2024 10:27 am
After Ismail Haniya, the top political leader of the Palestinian independence organization Hamas, was killed in Iran in an assassination attempt by the occupying Israel, Khaled Meshaal may become the new leader in his place. Several sources of Hamas reported this information.
Khaled Meshaal rose to global fame in 1997 after surviving an Israeli assassination attempt. Israeli spies tried to poison Meshaal on the street outside his office in the Jordanian capital of Amman at the time.
Jordan’s then-King Hussein then threatened to hang the assassins and cancel the peace treaty with Israel if an antidote was not provided.
Israel accepted the Jordanian king’s demands and at the same time released Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. However, they killed him in Gaza seven years later.
To Israel and the West, Iran-backed Hamas is a terrorist group. They claim that this group is fighting for the destruction of Israel.
But to Palestinian supporters, Khaled Meshaal and other Hamas leaders are leaders in the struggle for Palestinian liberation from Israeli occupation.
Israeli media The Jerusalem Post reported that Meshaal had become the exiled political leader of Hamas in the year before Israel attempted to assassinate him.
Because of his position as a political leader, Meshaal was able to represent Hamas in meetings with government officials abroad. He remained outside Israel’s strict travel ban on other Hamas leaders.
From the late 1990s, Meshaal became an important member of Hamas’ top leadership. Although he was basically working from exile.