Last Updated on 07/08/2024 by wccexam Desk
Yahya Sinwar has been made the head of Hamas after the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyya on July 31. According to a Reuters report, Hamas said, “The Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas has announced the election of Commander Yahya Sinwar as the head of the political bureau of the movement. Yahya will replace martyred Commander Ismail Haniyya.”
According to the agency, Sinwar has been in Gaza since the war with Israel began.
was born in a refugee camp
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Yahya Sinwar has spent half of his youth in Israeli prisons and after the killing of Haniyeh, he is the most powerful Hamas leader. Yahya Sinwar (61) was born in a refugee camp in Khan Younis, Gaza and was elected the leader of Hamas in Gaza in 2017. He was recognized as a staunch enemy of Israel.
How was Ismail Haniya murdered?
According to the report, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said in a statement that Ismail Haniya was killed when his residence in Tehran was targeted. Haniya was in the Iranian capital for the inauguration of President Masoud Pezeshkian.
Hamas said in a statement that Haniya was killed in “a treacherous Zionist attack on his residence in Tehran”.
The IRGC said Haniyeh was killed by a “short-range projectile” with a 7-kilogram warhead fired from outside her residence in Tehran. It said in a statement that the attack was carried out by Israel with the support of the “criminal” US government.
“Based on investigations and analysis, the terrorist operation was carried out with the firing of a short-range missile equipped with a warhead weighing approximately 7 kilograms from outside the guest residence, accompanied by a powerful explosion,” the IRGC said in the statement.
However, the United States denied receiving advance information about the assassination plot. Haniya was killed just hours after an Israeli airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon, killed Fuad Shukr, a military commander for Hamas ally Hezbollah.
Source (PTI) (NDTV) (HINDUSTANTIMES)