(Gaza City) The so called democratically elected government of the peaceful state of Gaza have decided to elect a new leader in which to replace Ismail Haniyeh who became top dog after his minions took over the tiny state in 2007 by killing as many PA supporter as possible.
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With Haniyeh expected to take over as Hamas'
supreme leader, (replacing Khaled Mashaal, who lives in exile.) Hamas has picked Yehiya Sinwar in which to replace Haniyeah.
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| Yehiya Sinwar |
Sinwar, who is in his mid-50s, grew up in Khan Yunis, He started out as one of a hard core of Muslim Brotherhood
activists that formed Hamas. He helped set up an early prototype of Hamas’s
military wing known as the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades. He later set up Hamas’s
security branch, his job included punishing “morality” offenders and killing
Palestinians suspected of collaborating with Israel. By early 1988 he was under
arrest and was sentenced to four life terms in Israeli prison for attempted
murder and causing grievous bodily harm through sabotage. The murders of two
Israeli soldiers and the murders of a large number of Palestinians who were
accused of collaborating with the jew. During his final years in prison, he became the leader of the hundreds of Hamas prisoners held by Israel.
Sinwar, along with about 1,000 other prisoners, was released
in 2011 in exchange for Gilad Schalit,
an Israeli soldier who had been captured by Hamas five years earlier in a
cross-border raid. Sinwar, who rejects any reconciliation with Israel, has quickly
regained his position within Hamas since his release. He is believed to have
been behind the detention, torture and killing of a Hamas commander, Mahmoud Ishtiwi, who was initially held for embezzlement in 2015. Months later he was
killed, accused of committing “moral crimes” – suspicions of gay sex —
Yehiya Sinwar's election is seen as a sign of the growing
power of Hamas' armed wing, which exists alongside the political side of the
movement in Gaza. Israeli officials said Sinwar's appointment did not
change anything other than trading "one extremist with another".
