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August 5, 2024

Palestinian Politics after Ismail Haniyeh

The most popular Hamas member is dead.

On July 23, representatives of Fatah (the political party that governs the West Bank) and representatives of Hamas concluded a three-day summit in Beijing by signing an interim national-unity agreement. Eight days later, Hamas’s political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, was killed in Tehran. Khaled Abu Toameh examines what his death implies for Palestinian politics:

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