Ahmed Yassin, the founder of Hamas, became the first chairman of the Hamas Shura Council and de facto leader of Hamas from December 1987 until March 2004. Following his assassination, his deputy, Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi took over for only 26 days before he was assassinated by Israel.

In January 2024, Khaled Mashal, top Hamas leader until 2017 and now heading the Hamas diaspora office – in contradiction with Haniyeh's proclamation from November 2023 – repeated his stance from 1 May 2017: a (preliminary) Palestinian state "on the 1967 borders", that is "21 per cent of Palestine", would be accepted by Hamas but not as the ...

Haniyeh was the leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip from 2006 until February 2017, when he was replaced by Yahya Sinwar. Haniyeh was seen by many diplomats as one of the more pragmatic and moderate figures in Hamas. [17] From 2017 until his assassination in 2024, he had mostly lived in Qatar. [18]

2025年1月21日 · Many of Hamas's top leaders have been killed since the group's attack on Israel on 7 October 2023, dealing it a severe blow. Here's what has happened to Hamas's most prominent figures: Yahya...

2024年10月18日 · Israel succeeded Wednesday in its year-long mission to kill Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, the man accused of being one of the masterminds of the October 7, 2023 attacks. But while Sinwar’s...

2024年8月1日 · Oct 17 (Reuters) - Israel said on Thursday that Yahya Sinwar, the overall leader of Hamas and the architect of the Palestinian group's Oct. 7, 2023 attacks on Israeli soil, had been killed.

2025年1月23日 · Yahya Sinwar (born October 29, 1962, Khan Younis refugee camp, Gaza Strip—died October 16, 2024, Rafah, Gaza Strip) was the de facto leader of Hamas from 2017 to 2024 and the de jure leader as head of its political bureau from August 2024 to October 2024.

2024年10月17日 · The death of the Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, who was killed on Wednesday by Israeli forces in Gaza, deals a significant blow to the militant organization. Israel has made eliminating Hamas’s...

2024年8月6日 · As a prominent member of the movement that became Hamas in the late 1980s, Ismail Haniyeh was widely considered the group's overall leader until his reported death in July 2024.

2024年8月1日 · Ismail Haniyeh was widely considered Hamas's overall leader. He was assassinated, reportedly in an aerial strike, on a building he was staying in during a visit to Tehran on 31 July, 2024.