Ismail Haniyeh

Ismail Haniyeh

Ismail Haniyeh (Arabic: إسماعيل هنية, romanized: Ismāʿīl Haniyyah, ; 29 January 1962 – 31 July 2024) was a Palestinian politician who served as chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau from May 2017 until his assassination in July 2024. He also served as prime minister of the Palestinian National Authority from March 2006 until June 2014 and Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip from June 2007 until February 2017, where he was succeeded by Yahya Sinwar. Haniyeh was born in the al-Shati refugee camp in the then Egyptian-controlled Gaza Strip in 1962 or 1963, to parents who were expelled or fled from Al-Jura (now part of Ashkelon) during the 1948 Palestine war. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ismail Haniyeh has received more than 5,214,034 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Ismail Haniyeh is the 1,453rd most popular politician (up from 7,731st in 2019).

Ismail Haniyeh is most famous for serving as a senior political leader of Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist organization, and for his roles as the Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority and later the Chief of the Hamas Political Bureau.