Who is Haniya’s successor in Hamas?

In Hamas news today, the head of the political wing of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, was killed in an airstrike in the Iranian capital, Tehran, early Wednesday morning.

Since then, there has been speculation about who is Haniya’s successor. Khaled Meshaal is one of the few people whose names are at the top of the list.

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Khaled, 68, was born in Silwad, in the West Bank, in 1956. Hamas news today Father Abdal Qadir Meshal was a farmer by profession. Khaled attended a local school up to fifth grade. In 1957, Khaled’s father moved to Kuwait for farming. Besides, he used to perform Imamate there.

After the six-day Arab-Israeli war in 1967, Khaled also migrated to Kuwait with his family. In 1978, Khaled graduated from Kuwait University with a degree in physics.

In the early 1970s, Khaled came into contact with the Muslim Brotherhood while studying at the famous Abdullah Al-Salim School in Kuwait. Later, while studying at Kuwait University, his relationship with student politics deepened. Khaled started teaching at the school after graduation. Until 1984, he taught physics in various schools in Kuwait.

In 1983, the Palestinian Liberation Movement (PLO) held a closed-door international meeting in an Arab country with close associates. It was attended by representatives of Palestinian refugees from the West Bank, Gaza, and various Arab countries. The conference is said to have laid the groundwork for the establishment of Hamas. Khaled also participated in that conference.

Hamas was founded in 1987. Khaled is not a founding member of Hamas. But he was an early member of Hamas’s politburo. In 1996, he was elected as the Chairman of the Politburo of Hamas.

The following year, in 1997, Israel tried to kill Khaled in Amman, the capital of Jordan. Two Mossad agents attempted to kill him by injecting poison.more..

On September 25, 1997, while entering the Hamas office in Amman, one of the two agents came from behind and pushed an injection into Khaled’s left ear. He went into a coma. However, he came back from the door of death.

Benjamin Netanyahu was serving his first term as Prime Minister of Israel. He was the one who ordered the killing of Khaled.

Jordan’s then King Hussein reacted strongly to Khaled’s attempted poisoning. He requested that Netanyahu urgently send antidote for Khaled’s treatment. Otherwise, he threatened to suspend diplomatic relations with Israel.

Israel sent the antidote. Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin was agreed to be released. Meanwhile, Khaled’s bodyguards were able to arrest the Israeli agents. After this failed assassination attempt, Khaled’s name spread around the world.

Sheikh Yassin, the old leader of Hamas, was killed in an Israeli assassination in Gaza in March 2004, seven years after his release from Israeli prison. Hamas news today A month later, Israeli operatives killed Abdulaziz al-Rantisi, his successor. After that, the overall leadership of Hamas went to Khaled.

At one stage, the office of Hamas in Amman was closed. Then Khaled went to Qatar. From there, he went to Syria in 2001. In 2011, an uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad began. Hamas news today Sunni Muslims were the leaders of this rebellion. Khaled supports the rebels. Hamas itself is an organization of Sunni Muslims. But for strategic reasons, Hamas’s biggest sponsor is Iran, whose leaders are all Shia.

Khaled had to leave Damascus in January 2012 the following year for supporting the rebels. At the same time, his relations with Iran began to deteriorate. Iran was fighting against the rebels in Syria on the side of Assad. Since then, Khaled started living in Doha, Qatar and Cairo, Egypt.

Khaled himself admitted to Reuters that his relationship with Hamas has weakened due to his support for Syrian rebels. Because the organization is mainly dependent on Iran for money and weapons for their armed struggle,.

After the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, Khaled said the issue of Palestinian independence has now returned to the center of the world stage. Khaled called on Muslims in Arab countries and the world to support Hamas in the ongoing war.