{"id":4804,"date":"2024-08-07T11:05:37","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T05:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/?p=4804"},"modified":"2024-08-08T13:35:26","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T07:50:26","slug":"hamas-has-chosen-yahya-sinwar-as-the-new-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/?p=4804","title":{"rendered":"Hamas has chosen Yahya Sinwar as the New Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beirut. Hamas says it has chosen Yahya Sinwar, its top official in Gaza, as the new leader of its political bureau. The selection of Sinwar follows Ismail Haniyeh\u2019s assassination in Tehran on July 31, the Palestinian group said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas announces the selection of Commander Yahya Sinwar as the head of the political bureau of the movement, succeeding the martyr Commander Ismail Haniyeh, may [God] have mercy on him,\u201d the group said in a brief statement.<\/p>\n<p>Sinwar, 61, is seen by Israel as the mastermind behind the October 7 attack by Hamas inside Israeli territory, in which more than 1,100 people were killed and more than 200 others taken captive.<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s subsequent military campaign in Gaza has killed nearly 40,000 Palestinians, thousands of them women and children, displaced almost its entire 2.3 million population, and caused an unprecedented humanitarian crisis with widespread starvation and health emergencies.\u00a0<!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_240807_110322_473.sdocx--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beirut. Hamas says it has chosen Yahya Sinwar, its top official in Gaza, as the new leader of its political bureau. The selection of Sinwar follows Ismail Haniyeh\u2019s assassination in Tehran on July 31, the Palestinian group said on Tuesday. \u201cThe Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas announces the selection of Commander Yahya Sinwar as the head [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/ShowImage.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4804"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4808,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4804\/revisions\/4808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}