Ismail Haniyeh

Ismail Haniyeh

Ismail Haniyeh (Arabic: إسماعيل هنية, romanized: Ismāʿīl Haniyyah, ; 29 January 1962 – 31 July 2024) was a Palestinian politician who served as third chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau from May 2017 until his assassination in July 2024. He also served as the prime minister of the Palestinian National Authority from March 2006 until June 2014 and the first Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip from June 2007 until February 2017, where he was succeeded by Yahya Sinwar. Haniyeh was born in the al-Shati refugee camp in the then Egyptian-controlled Gaza Strip in 1962 or 1963, to parents who were expelled or fled from Al-Jura (now part of Ashkelon) during the 1948 Palestine war. He earned a bachelor's degree in Arabic literature from the Islamic University of Gaza in 1987, where he first became involved with Hamas, which was formed during the First Intifada against the Israeli occupation. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ismail Haniyeh is the 2,953rd most popular politician (down from 1,452nd in 2019). (down from 121st in 2019)

Ismail Haniyeh is most famous for serving as a senior political leader of Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist organization, and for his roles as the Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority and later the Chief of the Hamas Political Bureau.