Ismail Haniyeh is the absolute leader of Hamas
Ismail Haniyeh is a Bedouin Arab Bedoin Arab tribes sided with Israel in the 1948 war
A widely quoted Bedouin maxim is “I am against my brother, my brother and I are against my cousin, my cousin and I are against the stranger” sometimes quoted as “I and my brother are against my cousin, I and my cousin are against the stranger.This saying signifies a hierarchy of loyalties based on the proximity of some person to oneself About 1,600 Bedouin serve as volunteers in the Israel Defense Forces, many as trackers in the IDF’s elite tracking units
He has thirteen children and is almost certainly the most fecund of modern world leaders
Three of his sisters are Israeli citizens and live in the Negev desert
With multi-million-dollar land deals, luxury villas and black market fuel from Egypt, Gaza’s rulers made billions while the rest of the population struggled with 38-percent poverty and 40-percent unemployment.
In 2010,Egyptian magazine Rose al-Yusuf reported that Haniyeh paid for$4 million for a 2,500msq parcel of land area in Rimal, a beachfront neighborhood of Gaza City. To avoid embarrassment, the land was registered in the name of the husband of Haniyeh’s daughter. Since then, there have been reports that Haniyeh has purchased several homes in the Gaza Strip, registered in the names of his children – no hardship, as he has 13 of them.
At least with regards to his eldest son, it seems that the apple does not fall far from the tree, given his arrest on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing with millions of dollars in cash in possession, which he intended to take into Gaza.Source Israeli newspaper Ynet
***Note Ynet is the online version of Yedioth Ahronoth Israels largest newspaper by circulation There is an inbuilt bias
***Note Rose al-Yusuf is owned by the Egyptian Government and in 2010 the editor was Abdallah Kamal a member of the discredited ruling National Democratic Party. Accusations against Haniyeh must be viewed accordingly
Haniyeh has lived in Doha Qatar since 2017 when he was elected head of Hamas. Long before the Abraham Accords, the main Israeli diplomatic presence in the region was a trade office in Doha that operated for several years in the late 1990s.Mossads steadfast refusal to even attempt any assassination/kidnapping attempt of its most dangerous “terrorist”in Doha says something