{"id":42452,"date":"2024-08-06T19:05:58","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T19:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/hamas-names-yahya-sinwar-as-new-overall-leader\/"},"modified":"2024-08-06T19:05:58","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T19:05:58","slug":"hamas-names-yahya-sinwar-as-new-overall-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/?p=42452","title":{"rendered":"Hamas names Yahya Sinwar as new overall leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas announces the selection of leader Yahya Sinwar as the head of the political bureau of the movement,&#8221; a statement from Hamas said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sinwar currently tops Israel\u2019s most-wanted list. Israel\u2019s security agencies believe he masterminded the planning and execution of the 7 October 2023 attacks, which left over 1,200 people dead and 251 taken back into Gaza as hostages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Details of how Sinwar\u2019s leadership of the group\u2019s political bureau will function are yet to be released by Hamas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 61-year-old has not been seen in public since the attacks in October, and is believed to be hiding \u201c10 storeys underground\u201d in Gaza, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the late 1980s, Sinwar founded the Hamas security service known as Majd, which among other things targeted alleged Palestinian collaborators with Israel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sinwar has spent much of his life in Israeli jail &#8211; and after his third arrest in 1988 he was sentenced to four life terms in prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, he was among 1,027 Palestinian and Israeli Arab prisoners released by Israel in 2011 in exchange for an Israeli soldier held captive for over five years by Hamas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He later returned to his position as a prominent leader in Hamas and was appointed head of the group&#8217;s political bureau in the Gaza Strip in 2017.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The US includes Sinwar on its blacklist of &#8220;international terrorists&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cqxjjvdq7eyo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas announces the selection of leader Yahya Sinwar as the head of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[243,1020,2080,2082,2081],"class_list":["post-42452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-hamas","tag-leader","tag-names","tag-sinwar","tag-yahya"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.0 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - 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