Yahya Sinwar

1 week ago - The chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau, Khaled Mashal, took over Hamas leadership; he was declared the overall and de facto leader of Hamas from April 2004. Although he had held this position from 1996, he was not the overall leader of Hamas: ...

5 days ago - Yahya Ibrahim Hassan Sinwar (Arabic: يحيى إبراهيم حسن السنوار, romanized: Yaḥyá Ibrāhīm Ḥasan al-Sinwār; 29 October 1962 – 16 October 2024) was a Palestinian militant and politician who served as fourth chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau from August 2024, ...

December 13, 2023 - Yahya Sinwar was the leader of Hamas and an early architect of its armed wing. He was considered one of the masterminds of the October 7, 2023, attacks on Israel.

2 weeks ago - Ismail Haniyeh (Arabic: إسماعيل هنية, romanized: Ismāʿīl Haniyyah, pronunciationⓘ; 29 January 1962 – 31 July 2024) was a Palestinian politician who served as third chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau from May 2017 until ...

2 days ago - In November 2008, in a meeting, on Gaza Strip soil, with 11 European members of parliaments, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh re-stated that Hamas was willing to accept a Palestinian state "in the territories of 1967" (Gaza Strip and West Bank), ...

January 21, 2025 - Ismail Haniyeh was Hamas's overall leader until the group confirmed his death in Iran on 31 July 2024.

February 8, 2006 - Despite the existence of central figures—Sheikh Ahmed Yassin was well-known as the group’s founder and original authority—considerable murkiness surrounds the organization’s central command.

October 17, 2024 - Sinwar was then chosen to take his place as Hamas' top leader, though he was in hiding in Gaza.

September 4, 2018 - Ismail Haniyeh was a senior Hamas leader and former prime minister of the Palestinian Authority (2006–07) and of the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip (2007–14). He was among the younger founding members of Hamas and served as the personal ...

September 1, 2025 - Head of the Hamas political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh (left) and Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip, Yahya Sinwar (right) at a rally marking the 30th anniversary of the terror group, in Gaza City, December 14, 2017.

April 10, 2025 - Hamas’s political chief Ismail Haniyeh, the head of its armed wing Mohammed Deif, and Yahya Sinwar, mastermind of the October 7 slaughter, have all been killed, as have a string of other commanders and political figures.

October 17, 2024 - 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.

April 4, 2025 - Alive, living abroad – mainly in Qatar, but also traveling between countries. Al-Hayya is the de facto Hamas leader in Gaza, a member of the Hamas leadership council, and one of the negotiators for a ceasefire with Israel.

December 3, 2023 - Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, is widely believed to have helped mastermind the unprecedented Hamas attack that changed the course of Israeli-Palestinian history.

May 18, 2025 - Following the killing of Hamas’s top military commander, Muhammad Deif, last July, Muhammad Sinwar took charge of the terror group’s military wing. Later, after Sinwar’s older brother Yahya was killed by IDF troops, he became the de facto ...

May 1, 2025 - After a year-long hunt, Israel finally took out Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, shifting power to his brother Mohammed. But with Hamas weakened, Gaza in crisis, and no end in sight, can the group survive?

July 4, 2025 - The commander, Izz al-Din al-Haddad, took over the military wing in Gaza after Israeli forces killed Muhammad Sinwar, according to a senior Middle Eastern intelligence official and three Israeli defense officials who spoke on condition of anonymity ...

March 15, 2025 - Mohammed Ismail Darwish, also known as Abu Omar Hassan, leads Hamas's Shura Council and heads political delegations to countries such as Turkey and Iran. He is seen as a unifying figure but is not considered "leadership material" due to his ...

October 18, 2024 - Sinwar was named the overall leader of Hamas in August, following the assassination of its former political chief Ismail Haniyeh during a visit to Iran. Before that he had led the group as its top commander in Gaza since 2017.