{"id":300805,"date":"2026-02-20T09:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T09:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/300805\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T09:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T09:46:10","slug":"archterrorists-mashaal-and-al-hayya-running-for-hamas-leadership-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/300805\/","title":{"rendered":"Archterrorists Mashaal and al-Hayya running for Hamas leadership role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-7e3a3ef3=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">The murderous terrorist organization Hamas is preparing for the election of new leadership, following the elimination of many of its top officials by Israel since October 7, 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-7e3a3ef3=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">Sources within Hamas told Al-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper that the decisive vote for the selection of a new leader for the organization&#8217;s political bureau will take place in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-7e3a3ef3=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">According to these sources, at this stage, only a new leader for the political bureau will be chosen, who will be responsible for managing the organization both within &#8220;Palestine&#8221; and abroad. There will be no elections for the members of the political bureau in the coming year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-7e3a3ef3=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">These sources added that the election of a new leader for Hamas is intended to convey a calming message within the organization, as well as an outward message signaling that Hamas is united under elected leadership.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-7e3a3ef3=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">The two prominent contenders for the role of Hamas leader are Khaled Mashaal, the leader of Hamas abroad, and Khalil al-Hayya, the leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-7e3a3ef3=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">According to Hamas sources quoted in the newspaper, Mashaal enjoys broad support from Hamas representatives abroad and in Judea and Samaria, while the majority in the Gaza Strip supports al-Hayya. They do not rule out the possibility of a different leader being chosen for Hamas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The murderous terrorist organization Hamas is preparing for the election of new leadership, following the elimination of many&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51,42,101581,11075,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-300805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-hamas","tag-headlines","tag-khaled-mashaal","tag-khalil-al-hayya","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}