According to reports from Mehr News Agency via Rai al-Youm, informed sources within Hamas have revealed that the movement is currently governed by a leadership council consisting of five members, serving as a temporary substitute for the political bureau chief.<\/p>\n
Hamas has recently completed the election of a new advisory council, which acts as a consultative body linking the political office of the movement to its leadership frameworks.An informed source stated that, based on the internal statutes of the movement, a body comprising over eighty members of the general council will elect the movement’s leader and members of the political bureau.<\/p>\n
According to the internal regulations, advisory council members are elected every four years across three regions of the movement: the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and outside of Palestine.A Hamas official informed France Press that the movement has concluded its internal elections in the three regions and has reached the final stage to select the political bureau chief.<\/p>\n
The competition has now narrowed down to two leading figures: Khaled Mashal and Khalil Al-Hayya. The official added that Hamas will issue a statement immediately after the election of the movement’s leader, likely to be released during Ramadan.Another source confirmed that Hamas is in the final stage of electing its political bureau chief. Khaled Mashal, who resides outside the Palestinian territories, was born in the village of Silwad in the occupied West Bank in 1956 and has previously served as the head of the political bureau. Several Hamas officials regard him as ‘pragmatic and moderate.’<\/p>\n
Khalil Al-Hayya, born in Gaza City on November 5, 1960, leads the movement in the Gaza Strip and also heads Hamas’s negotiating team. According to sources within the movement, he enjoys support from Hamas’s military wing in Gaza.Following the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, the former head of Hamas, in July 2024, Yahya Sinwar took over the leadership until he was martyred in October of the same year during clashes with Israeli forces in Rafah, southern Gaza. Subsequently, Hamas formed a leadership council composed of five prominent figures, led by Mohammad Darwish, the head of the general council of Hamas.<\/p>\n
Israel identified Yahya Sinwar as the mastermind behind the October 7, 2023 attack. Two sources within Hamas emphasized that the next leader of the movement will oversee the political bureau for a year, which is considered an exceptional electoral term. Following this, the movement will hold another election for a new term of its consultative and leadership structures lasting four years.Sources did not provide information on the number of individuals eligible to vote within the movement or the election mechanisms under the challenging security conditions that Hamas has faced especially after sustaining significant blows from the Israeli army during the war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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