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Palestinian Islamist Group Hamas Elects Yahya Sinwar as New Gaza Strip Leader

© AFP 2023 / SAID KHATIBThis file photo taken on October 21, 2011 shows then Hamas leader Ismail Haniya (L) and freed Palestinian prisoner Yahya Sinwar (R), a founder of Hamas' military wing, waving as supporters celebrate the release of hundreds of prisoners following a swap with captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip
This file photo taken on October 21, 2011 shows then Hamas leader Ismail Haniya (L) and freed Palestinian prisoner Yahya Sinwar (R), a founder of Hamas' military wing, waving as supporters celebrate the release of hundreds of prisoners following a swap with captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip - Sputnik International
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Hamas, a Palestinian Islamist political and militant group, has made Yahya Sinwar, a hardliner from the movement's armed wing, its new leader in the Gaza Strip, local media reported Monday.

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GAZA STRIP (Sputnik) According to the Al-Jazeera broadcaster, Hamas has not confirmed the election of the new leader yet, since the electoral procedures have not been completed.

Sinwar, one of the leaders of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas military wing, had served over 20 years of imprisonment in Israel on charges of terrorism before being released in 2011 in exchange for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit kidnapped by Hamas militants in 2006.

Hamas seeks the creation of an independent state of Palestine and wants Israel to withdraw from the Palestinian territories it occupied after the 1967 war. Hamas governs the Gaza Strip independently of the Palestinian Authority.

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