His selection on Tuesday as Hamas’s top diplomatic leader — replacing Ismail Haniyeh, who was assassinated in Iran last week — consolidates his power.
Here’s what we know about Mr. Sinwar and his past.
Mr. Sinwar had been recruited by Hamas’s founder, Sheik Ahmed Yassin, who made him chief of an internal security unit known as Al Majd.
While incarcerated, Mr. Sinwar took advantage of an online university program and devoured Israeli news.
Mr. Sinwar liked to call himself a “specialist in the Jewish people’s history,” Dr. Bitton said.
Persons:
Yahya Sinwar, —, Ismail Haniyeh, Sinwar, Sheik Ahmed Yassin, Al Majd, Shin Bet, Yuval Bitton, ”, Bitton
Organizations:
Hamas’s
Locations:
Israel, Gaza, Iran