Khaberni - The French news agency reported, citing sources described as well-informed and responsible in the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), that the movement "has completed its internal elections in the three regions, reaching the final stage of choosing the head of the political bureau."
Two sources told the agency that the upcoming movement leader “will manage the political bureau of the movement for one year, which is an exceptional election cycle, after which the movement will organize another election for a new term of its structures and advisory and leadership frameworks lasting for four years."
In this context, agency sources confirmed that “the competition for the position of the head of the political bureau is confined between leaders Khaled Meshaal and Khalil al-Hayya."
The sources added: “Hamas will issue a statement as soon as the movement leader is chosen,” expecting it to be “during the month of Ramadan.”
It was noted that “the movement has indeed completed the election of a new Shura Council - an advisory body - representing the link between the political bureau of the movement and the leadership frameworks."
The agency continued: “According to the internal system of Hamas, an assembly comprising more than 80 members of the General Shura Council elects the movement's president and the members of the political bureau."
According to the French agency's sources, the latest elections aimed to “renew internal legitimacy and fill the vacancies for leadership positions after the occupation assassinated dozens of members of the political bureau, the Shura Council, and field leaders.”
Khaled Meshaal is the president of Hamas abroad, born in the village of Silwad in the occupied West Bank in 1956, and was a former head of the political bureau of the movement.
Khalil al-Hayya, born in Gaza City on November 5, 1960, presides over the movement in the Gaza Strip in addition to heading the Hamas negotiating delegation.
Following the assassination of the former head of the political bureau Ismail Haniyeh in July 2024, Yahya Sinwar assumed the presidency of the movement until his martyrdom in October of the same year in a clash with an Israeli force in the city of Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip.
Following the martyrdom of Sinwar, the Hamas movement is led by a leadership council consisting of 5 figures, headed by the president of the General Shura Council, Mohammed Darwish.
