Hamas in Gaza has completed an internal voting process to select a new head for the terrorist organization’s general political bureau, but the winner has not yet been announced, according to a report from Qatari outlet Al-Alraby.
Hamas’s branches in the West Bank and abroad are expected to complete their voting processes soon and announce a winner next week, Al-Alraby stated.
The competition is between two candidates. Khalil al-Hayya, the current interim head of Hamas’s political bureau in Gaza who boasts strong ties to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), is running against Khaled Mashaal, a senior Hamas official with closer ties
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