The five-member Hamas committee, formed in August after Haniyeh’s assassination to facilitate decision-making given communication difficulties with Sinwar in Gaza, “will take the lead.”
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Hamas, whose leader Yahya Sinwar was killed by Israeli forces, will be temporarily led by a committee based in Qatar, before the election of a successor, two sources in the Palestinian Islamist movement said on Monday.
“HE Hamas leadership’s focus is not on naming a successor to the late leadermartyr Yahya Sinwar, before the next elections” of the Palestinian movement scheduled for March “if conditions allow,” a Hamas source told Agence France-Presse (AFP).
Yahya Sinwar, designated Hamas leader after the July assassination in Iran of Ismaïl Haniyeh, was declared dead on Thursday by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), which eliminated the leader in the southern Gaza Strip, an enclave where a war develops. for more than a year.
HE five-member Hamas committeeformed in August after Haniyeh’s assassination to facilitate decision-making given communication difficulties with Sinwar in Gaza, “will assume leadership of the group,” according to the source.
This committee, based in Doha, is made up of representatives from Gaza (Khalil al-Haya), the occupied West Bank (Zaher Jabareen) and the diaspora (Khaled Mechaal), as well as the Hamas Shura Advisory Council (Mohammed Darwish) and the secretary of the political office, always anonymous for security reasons, continued.
Another Hamas source assured that the Hamas leadership cluster discussed the possibility of nominating a political leader without announcing his namevisitor option.
Since the start of the Israeli offensive against Gaza, in October 2023, more than 42,600 people have been killed – most of them women and children – and almost 99,800 have been injured, according to data from the Gaza Ministry of Health, controlled by Hamas, which does not It does not include the thousands of missing people or deaths from diseases or infections.
On October 7, 2023, Hamas launched a surprise attack on southern Israel with the launch of thousands of rockets and the raid of armed militiamen, killing more than 1,140 people in Israel, most of them civilians, according to one count. . from AFP based on official Israeli figures.
According to Israeli authorities, some 240 people were kidnapped and taken to Gaza. Of them, about a hundred were freed at the end of November, during a truce in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, and 132 hostages remain detained in Palestinian territory, of whom 28 are believed to have died.
In response to the attack, Israel declared war on Hamas, a movement that has controlled the Gaza Strip since 2007 and is classified as terrorist by the European Union and the United States, bombing several of the group’s infrastructure in the Gaza Strip and imposing a Total siege of the territory with water, fuel and electricity supply cuts.
Source: Observadora
