Yahya Sinwar has been named as the new head of the political bureau of Palestinian resistance fighters Hamas. Hamas reported this information on Tuesday. Aljazeera news.

Yahya Sinwar K: Since 2017, Sinwar is known as the leader of Hamas in Gaza His current whereabouts are unknown, but he is believed to be hiding in a Hamas tunnel Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas' chief diplomat and Yahya's predecessor, lived most of the time in Doha, the capital of Qatar.

Sinwar is considered to be the mastermind behind the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7 last year 1,200 people were killed in the attack and more than 250 people were held hostage in Gaza.

Sinwar was born in 1962 in the Khan Yunis refugee camp in southern Gaza His family moved to Khan Yunis from the coastal city of Ashkelon region Khan Yunis is currently a part of Israel

Sinwar contributed to the founding of the Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, during the first Palestinian intifada in the late 1980s in the struggle against Israeli occupation.