The political leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniya, who was assassinated today in Iran, attracted the international spotlight in 2006 when he became prime minister of the Palestinian Authority after his movement’s surprise election victory. He has long advocated reconciling the armed struggle with the political struggle in his organization and is said to have cultivated good relations with the leaders of several other Palestinian movements. The 62-year-old lived in self-imposed exile in Qatar and Turkey. The son of a refugee family from the town called Ashkelon in Arabic (Ashkelon in Hebrew), a few kilometers north of the Gaza Strip, he began his political activism in the Muslim Brotherhood student organization at the Islamic University of Gaza, where Hamas was born. He was a member of the Islamic University student union in 1983 and 1984. Three years later, he joined Hamas at its founding, as the first Intifada broke out, the Palestinian uprising that would last until 1993. […]
Source: News Beast
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