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The former head of this organization Khaled Mashal was appointed temporary acting head of the Hamas terrorist group. Who is he?

According to media reports, after the destruction of the leader of the leader Hamas Yahai Sinvara in the Gas sector, the temporarily acting head of the Politburo of the organization outside the Enclave was appointed Khaled Mashal. It is he who, if he lives, will lead the terrorists before the election of the new leadership of the group. When and how they can be carried out is still unknown.

Now - from yesterday - and. O. Khaled Mashal is responsible for communications with key parties participating in negotiations on the release of hostages.

Khaled Mashal was born in 1956 in the village of Silvad near the city of Ramall on the western bank of the Jordan River. In 1967, together with relatives, he was sent to Jordan, from where the family soon moved to Kuwait, where Mashal was until 1990.

In Kuwait, Khaled graduated from high school and university, receiving the profession of physics teacher. Even at the university, Mashal joined the local branch of the Muslim Brothers movement and became the head of the student group “List of Islamic Movement”. After graduating from the university in 1978, he taught physics for several years. In 1987, he became one of the creators of the organization of Hamas. After the invasion of Iraq, Mashal, like many Palestinians, moved to Jordan, where he headed the Hamas department in Aman and raised funds to militants for use in terrorist attacks with the participation of suicide bombers. He organized a series of terrorist acts directed against the Israelis.

In 1996, he was elected chairman of the Politburo Hamas. Mashal also showed special activity in expanding the external relations of terrorists with countries such as Iran and Syria.

In the late 1990s, the son and successor of King Hussein King Abdallah closed the Hamas office. Mashal, who was in a Jordanian prison for some time, was expelled in August 1999 along with three other representatives of Hamas: Imper al-Rashuk, Ibrahim Gosheh and Musa Abu Marzuk. Mashal moved to Damascus, where he organized the headquarters of Hamas. In 2012, against the backdrop of the Civil War in Syria, due to possible persecution by Assad’s regime, Mashal moved to Qatar.

In 2017, Ismail Hania was elected the new head of the Politburo Hamas. At the same time, Mashal left the Politburo and stopped taking any official post in the organization. On October 17, 2024, after the liquidation of Yahya, Sinvara Mashal was appointed temporarily acting head of the Politburo Hamas. Khaled Mashal is included in the list of the most dangerous terrorists, looking for Israeli special services.

In 1997, the Israeli intelligence agencies attempted Mashal poisoning. The operation was authorized by the Government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who described Mr. Mashal as "an outstanding figure in Hamas and responsible for the murder of innocent Israeli civilians." Preshing themselves as Canadian tourists, Mossad agents injected fatal poison into his ear. However, the protection of the terrorist and the Jordanian security forces detained the failed killers. The life of Mashal saved the king of Jordan Hussein, who was outraged by the attack and demanded from the Israeli government to give him an antidote. In exchange for the freedom of his agents, Israel sent an antidote to Amman and released Ahmad Yasin and 19 more prisoners from prison. An unsuccessful attempt helped Mashal to rise to the top of the leading structure of Hamas.

According to the British New Statesman magazine, in the list of 50 influential people in the 2010 world, Mashal took 18th place, overtaking several points of Vladimir Putin, Osam Ben Laden and Hillary Clinton.

He married in 1981 and started seven children.

“Khaled Mashal was again appointed head of Hamas - temporarily before the election. But now it is difficult for them to hold the elections, ”says the Israeli military expert David Gandelman, Israeli Military Expert. - Negotiations on hostages are now trying to activate, see what will come of it. Mashal enjoys a certain authority.

Now there is a question about what the new leadership will decide in terms of continuing the war. It is important how the local leadership, in particular, the brother of the late Yahya Sinvara Muhammad, will do. ”

“There are rumors that the brother of the destroyed Yahya Syhammad can become the real leader of Hamas,” says Sergey Migdal, a former employee of the special services and police of Israel, a specialist in security issues. - It is possible that he will be elected to the dominant role in the organization. However, it should be noted that there is little to do not depend on the GAZ sector now on the decisions of the Politburo of the group. Although the leader of the leader is in Khamas, there are really no democracy there. The management system is more likely to be a powerful elite in the Soviet Union: the collective department with the chairman at the head. "