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Several figures emerge as next leaders of Hamas in Gaza, but who will end up leading? - analysis

Although Hamas only controls half of Gaza, it still runs the lives of 2 million civilians and seeks out new leadership amid targeted eliminations by the IDF.

(Illustrative) Palestinian members of al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement.
Members of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad stand on a street during Eid al-Fitr in Gaza City, last week.

Netherlands man faces three years in prison for financing Hamas front

 UNRWA boys' prep school, Rafah, Gaza

UNRWA fired Gaza school principal outed as being Hamas member, org. confirms to 'Post'

A protester holds a mobile phone with a Palestinian flag and a photo of slain Hamas spokesman Abu Obeidah, during a rally held by Houthi protesters to show solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, in Sanaa, Yemen, August 30, 2024

Emojis, SIM swaps: How Hamas greenlit October 7 massacre, undetected by Israel


Hamas-appointed AG: Collaborators will be executed in the coming days

Jaber added the execution sentences are final and unappealable.

The son of senior Hamas militant Mazen Fuqaha sits on the shoulders of Hamas Gaza Chief Yehya Al-Sinwar during a memorial service for Fuqaha, in Gaza City March 27, 2017

Hamas forces arrest collaborators, report says

Hamas has dealt harshly with those it accused of collaboration in the past, executing many of them.

Hamas operatives prepare to execute alleged collaborators in the Gaza Strip

IDF arrests top Hamas official in the West Bank

The arrest comes against the background of heightened tensions between Hamas and Israel.

IDF confiscates weapons in West Bank

Mashaal: We are in open war with Israel

“We don’t care if there is an imbalance of power; our will is more powerful than their force. Our will and beliefs are more powerful than their weapons."

Hamas political bureau chief Khaled Mashaal.

Hundreds participate in symbolic funeral for senior Hamas militant

Fuqaha's father Mohammad said he blamed Israel for his son's death.

A Hamas supporter shouts anti-Israel slogans in front of the family house of Palestinian senior Hamas militant Mazen Fuqaha in the West Bank town of Tubas, near Jenin, March 25, 2017.

Dutch antisemitism watchdog asks government to ban ‘Hamas front’ conference

“Palestinians in Europe,” is reportedly organized by Hamas-affiliated groups.

Rotterdam

Hamas says change in leadership not a change in policy

Most experts have said that Sinwar’s election victory indicates the ascendancy of Hamas’s military leadership, which holds more bellicose positions than its political leadership.

Ismail Haniyeh (L) and Yahya Sinwar (R)

Lawmakers: Electing Sinwar reveals Hamas aims to start a new conflict

MK Avi Dichter: This appearance that Hamas has a political branch and a military branch was always wrong and today it's officially gone.

A Palestinian Hamas militant takes part in a rally marking the twelfth anniversary of the death of late Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin in Gaza City

New Hamas music video threatens to rain down rockets on Israel

Titled "Zionists, you will perish in Gaza," the video relays the terror group's message, threatening Israelis that rockets will "get you where you live."

New Hamas propaganda video

Tensions with Gaza flare shortly after IDF drill preparing for escalation

The IDF is planning as if a war might break out at any time, though the military assumption is that Hamas is not looking for a confrontation with Israel in the near future,

IDF completes large-scale Gaza drill simulating Hamas infiltration by land, sea, and air.