Hardliner Yahya Sinwar was announced by Hamas on Tuesday as its new leader following the assassination of his predecessor Ismail Haniya in Tehran on July 31. Sinwar was the head of Hamas’s military wing, and with Haniya’s death he becomes its absolute leader. Sinuar, considered to be her “brains”. attack of October 7, he is expected to take a harder line on Israel.

It is noted that the Arab network Al Arabiya reported earlier that the head of the political wing of Hamas, and the successor of Ismail Haniya, will be Muhammad Ismail Darwish, citing anonymous sources.

Darwish (alias Abu Omar Hassan), who lives in Qatar, will lead the terror group’s political arm until new elections are held, the sources claimed, but Iranian media were cautious about the news.

“This is despite the fact that two days ago Hamas official sources denied the speculation about the election of Mohammad Ismail Darwish as the head of the new political bureau of the Hamas movement,” the Iranian Mehr news agency reported.

THE Yahya Sinuar he was the leader of Hamas’ military wing in the Gaza Strip, having taken over from Haniya in February 2017, and is a co-founder of the Hamas security apparatus.

He spent 22 years in Israeli prisons before being released in 2011 in a prisoner exchange.

He was born in Khan Yunis, a city in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, and joined Hamas from its inception in 1987, the year of the first Intifada (uprising). Former commander of Al Qassam Brigades, he is wanted by Israel and is on the United States’ “international terrorist” list.

From a short-range missile which bore a head of approx 7 kgwas killed Ismail Haniya in Tehran as reported in a statement by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) who are investigating the incident.

In a statement, the IRGC said his killing “designed and executed by the Zionist regime” and was supported by “criminal US government”.