Wanted terrorist and Hamas diplomat
Status: 31.07.2024 11:58 a.m.
With the killing of Ismail Haniya, Hamas has lost its most important leader outside the Gaza Strip. Haniya was part of the Islamist terrorist organization for decades.
Ismail Haniya was born in 1963 in the Shatti refugee camp in the Gaza Strip and grew up there in poverty. His parents were expelled from Askalan, which later became the southern Israeli town of Ashkelon.
He joined Hamas in the late 1980s during the first Palestinian uprising, the Intifada, against the Israeli occupation. In the years that followed, he served several prison sentences in Israeli prisons, and in 1993 he returned to Gaza. There he soon made a name for himself as a close confidant of the spiritual leader of Hamas, Ahmed Yassin, who was killed in a targeted Israeli air strike in 2004.
Status: 31.07.2024 11:58 a.m.
With the killing of Ismail Haniya, Hamas has lost its most important leader outside the Gaza Strip. Haniya was part of the Islamist terrorist organization for decades.
Ismail Haniya was born in 1963 in the Shatti refugee camp in the Gaza Strip and grew up there in poverty. His parents were expelled from Askalan, which later became the southern Israeli town of Ashkelon.
He joined Hamas in the late 1980s during the first Palestinian uprising, the Intifada, against the Israeli occupation. In the years that followed, he served several prison sentences in Israeli prisons, and in 1993 he returned to Gaza. There he soon made a name for himself as a close confidant of the spiritual leader of Hamas, Ahmed Yassin, who was killed in a targeted Israeli air strike in 2004.