The Palestinian movement Hamas, which the US and the EU consider a terrorist organization, announced that it has chosen as its new leader Yahya Sinwar, its top official in the Gaza Strip who organized the October 7 attacks on Israel.
Hamas said in a statement that it had appointed Sinwar as the new head of its political bureau to replace Ismail Haniyeh, who was killed in Iran last Sunday in an attack suspected to be by Israel.
Sinvar has not appeared in public since the Oct. 7 attack in southern Israel that killed 1.200 people and took about 250 hostages, according to Israeli figures, and triggered Israel's campaign in the Gaza Strip.
Palestinian health authorities in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip say that almost 40.000 people have been killed in Israeli attacks.
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