Ismail Haniyeh
 Ismail Haniyeh    (politician, freedom fighter, “terrorist”) | |
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| Born | 29 January 1962 |
| Alma mater | Islamic University of Gaza |
Ismail Haniyeh is a Palestinian politician who is the chairman of Hamas’s political bureau and lives in Qatar.
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Ceasefire talks
On 19 December 2023, Al Jazeera reported:
Senior Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh is to visit Egypt on Wednesday 20 December 2023 for talks on a ceasefire in Gaza and a prisoner exchange with Israel, a source close to the Palestinian group says.
Qatar-based Haniyeh will head a “high-level” Hamas delegation to Egypt, where he is due to hold talks with Egyptian intelligence chief Abbas Kamel and other officials, the source told AFP.
The discussions will be “on stopping the aggression and the war to prepare an agreement for the release of prisoners [and] the end of the siege imposed on the Gaza Strip”, the source said on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to talk about the visit.[1]
Peace initiative
On 24 December 2023, Megatron posted on X:
The newspaper Al-Sharq al-Awast reports that the Hamas delegation left Cairo with an Egyptian initiative and it includes three phases for a ceasefire:
- The first phase - a two or three week pause, during which 40 hostages will be released from Hamas.
- The second stage - intra-Palestinian talks to establish a technocratic government.
- The third stage - the end of the war and a comprehensive agreement.[2]
Warning of a massacre
On 21 April 2024, Ismail Haniyeh warned Israel:
✅ We warn against entering Rafah because this may cause a great massacre against our Palestinian people.
✅We call on all the brotherly countries in Egypt, our brothers in Turkey, all the directly related countries, our brothers in Qatar as mediators, and the European countries and others to take action in order to curb the aggression and prevent entry into Rafah, and even the necessity of complete withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and ending the aggression on the Gaza Strip.
✅But if the Zionist enemy decides to go to Rafah, our Palestinian people will also not raise the white flag, and the resistance in Rafah is also ready to defend itself and confront this aggression against itself and its people.
✅Our positions are clear from the beginning. We want to stop the aggression against our people. This is a priority for us, and for that reason, we agreed to enter into negotiations on the condition that these negotiations lead to a permanent ceasefire, to a comprehensive withdrawal, and to the return of all the displaced. Reaching a legitimate exchange deal with the Zionist enemy.
✅Despite dozens of sessions and dozens of papers exchanged through mediators, until this moment, the occupation has not agreed to a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
✅All the enemy wants is to recover its prisoners and then resume the war on Gaza, and this cannot happen.[3]
Background
Ismail Haniyeh was born in the Al-Shati refugee camp in the Gaza Strip in 1962. He studied at the Islamic University of Gaza, where he first became involved with Hamas, and graduated with a bachelor's degree in Arabic literature in 1987.
Haniyeh was head of the Hamas list that won the Palestinian legislative elections of 2006, and so became Prime Minister of the State of Palestine. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah–Hamas conflict, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continued to exercise prime ministerial authority in the Gaza Strip.
Haniyeh was the leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip from 2006 until February 2017, when he was replaced by Yahya Sinwar. On 6 May 2017, Haniyeh was elected chairman of Hamas's Political Bureau, replacing Khaled Mashaal; at the time, Haniyeh relocated from Gaza to Qatar.
Family members targeted
According to Israeli media, 14 members of Haniyeh's family were killed in October 2023 in an Israeli airstrike on his family home in Gaza City, among them a brother and nephew. In November 2023, a granddaughter of his was reportedly killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City. Later that month his eldest grandson was killed in an Israeli strike.
References
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