OCCUPIED JERUSALEM(Palestine Foundation Information Center) The Hamas Movement announced that its leadership began a wide consultation within its consultative institutions to choose a new chairman for the Movement, following the assassination of Ismail Haneyya.
“Following the martyrdom of Haneyya, the Movement’s leadership began a widespread consultation in its Shura institutions to choose a new chairman of the political bureau,” Hamas said in a statement on Saturday.
It added that the Movement’s executive institutions and Shura, the main consultative body, are continuing their work and that the results of consultations will be announced once they are completed.
“Hamas is distinguished by its high institutionalism and firm Shura Council, which was reflected in the facts and events during the past decades that witnessed the martyrdom of a number of its leaders,” it said, stressing that Hamas has a history of swift and smooth replacement of leaders martyred in Israeli airstrikes.
On Wednesday morning, Hamas announced the martyrdom of the chief of its political bureau, Ismail Haneyya in an Israeli assassination that targeted his residence in Tehran the day after his participation in the inauguration of the new Iranian President.
