In 2006, Haniyeh was appointed as the leader of Hamas in Gaza. That year, he served briefly as prime minister of a Palestinian unity government that collapsed after months of tension that included armed conflict between Palestinian factions.<\/p>\n
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Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh (center) at the inauguration of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in Tehran, Iran, on July 30, a day before his assassination. AP<\/p><\/div>\n
In 2017, he was elected as the leader of the political bureau of Hamas. In recent years, Haniyeh led Hamas from Qatar and Turkey. He was among the negotiators in the ongoing talks between Israel and Hamas, mediated by Egypt, Qatar and the United States to end the Gaza war in exchange for hostages taken in Hamas’ attack on Israel.<\/p>\n
How Haniyeh reached the power<\/strong><\/p>\n Haniyeh was born in 1962 in a refugee camp in the north of Gaza city, following his parents\u2019 displacement from their home in present-day Israel to Ashkelon in 1948.<\/p>\n He was educated in schools run by the main UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) and studied Arabic literature at the Islamic University of Gaza.<\/p>\n He was arrested by the Israeli army and was imprisoned several times in Israeli prisons in the 1980s and 1990s.<\/p>\n His rise to power in Gaza was aided by his mentor, the spiritual leader and founder of Hamas, Sheikh Yassin.\u00a0 Haniyeh was serving as Yassin\u2019s personal secretary and both were the target of the Israeli assassination attempt in 2003. The following year, Yassin was killed by the Israeli army.<\/p>\n \u201cYou don’t have to cry,\u201d Haniyeh told a crowd gathered outside the Shafa hospital in Gaza City who came there at that time to mourn the loss of Yassin. \u201cYou have to be steadfast and ready for revenge,\u201d Haniyeh told the gathering.<\/p>\n Haniyeh lost almost entire family members in war against Israel<\/strong><\/p>\n It has not been an easy journey for Haniyeh in the course of his struggle for freedom of Palestine against Israeli occupation. In June, Haniyeh\u2019s sister and her family were killed in an Israeli army raid on his home in Gaza. In April, three of Haniyeh\u2019s 13 sons were killed by Israeli forces in another military operation in Gaza. \u201cWe will not surrender and we are ready for sacrifices,\u201d Haniyeh said at the time, noting that he had lost dozens of his family members in the war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in the early hours of Wednesday morning in Tehran, the capital city of Iran. His death has earned widespread reactions and condemnations from the leaders of across the world, especially the region. His death has already raised fear of wider escalation in a region that is already destabilized by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4947,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[2167,602,503,828,1517,699,2705,1459,826],"class_list":["post-4946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-middleeast","tag-assassination","tag-conflict","tag-headline","tag-leaders","tag-political-leader","tag-political-leaders","tag-regional-leaders","tag-talks","tag-war"],"yoast_head":"\n