The operational’replacement athletics of the militant Palestinian group Hamas in days of yore have been characterized by abrupt and effleurted.
An attempt on Ismail Haniyeh’s life in Tehran early this Wednesday occurs when Hamas sits on a reserved_special_token_279>ning razor since the war in Gaza began almost nine months ago due to the group’s raid on south Israel.
“We are not discussing this matter now,”
a Hamas official said to the AP. He requested not to be named in accordance with organizational functioning when asked about the mechanism that would be put into practice to remove Haniyeh.
Haniyeh served as head of the group’s political bureau right until his death. His deputy was Saleh Arouri, who died in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut in January and would have clearly been the successor. The post of Arouri was closed because of his death, and the table was empty now.
The new leader ought to be named by the Shura council of the group, the primary consultative assembly, and perhaps this assembly holds its meeting after the funeral of Haniyeh in Qatar. The identity of the council is undisclosed but consists of regional chapters of the group in Gaza, the West Bank, the diaspora, and those incarcerated.
Zaher Jabarin was one of Haniyeh’s deputies for the administration of the group’s funds, more specifically the group’s chief executive officer, and therefore, he has good offices with Iran.
Hani al-Masri, knowledgeable about the structures of the Palestinian organizations, stated that the choice is most likely between Khaled Mashaal, a senior Hamas representative and a former head of the organization, and Khalil al-Hayya, a major representative of Hamas who accompanied Haniyeh.
“It will not be easy,” stated al-Masri, also a director at the Palestinian Center for Policy and Research and Strategic Studies.
Hamas new political leader will have to decide whether to continue with the militancy option and become, in effect, a guerrilla and an underground organization or choose a leader who can offer political solutions, while this is an unlikely scenario at this stage.
