HAMAS FACES TOUGH CHALLENGES
The sources mentioned a deputy chief will even be elected to exchange Saleh Al-Arouri, who was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon in 2024.
Sources near Hamas mentioned it was decided to conclude the vote, although some most well-liked an extension of collective management.
Hamas watchers regard Meshaal as a part of a practical wing with good ties to Sunni Muslim international locations, and Hayya, the group’s lead negotiator, as a part of a camp that deepened its relations with Iran.
Hamas faces a number of the hardest challenges because it was based in 1987. Whereas preventing has largely abated in Gaza for the reason that US-brokered ceasefire in October, Israel nonetheless holds virtually half the coastal enclave, assaults proceed, and situations for Gaza’s 2 million folks stay dire.
Hamas has additionally drawn criticism inside Gaza due to the heavy toll inflicted by the battle, with a lot of the enclave diminished to ruins and greater than 71,000 folks killed, in keeping with Gaza well being authorities.
Hamas-led militants killed some 1,200 folks and kidnapped 251 others within the Oct 7 cross-border assault on Israel.
US President Donald Trump’s ceasefire plan for Gaza calls for Hamas disarm and foresees the enclave being run by a technocratic Palestinian administration overseen by a global physique referred to as the Board of Peace.
