Occupied Palestine (QNN)- The Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas announced on Monday that Khaled Mashal has been elected to lead the movement abroad, and Musa Abu Marzouq has been elected as a deputy president.
The movement said in a statement issued on Monday that the election of Mashal came as part of the movement's internal elections, which are organized periodically.
The statement added that Hamas is proud of the democratic process inside the movement.
The movement had announced on March 10 that Yahya Sinwar was elected to lead it in Gaza.
Israeli forces have detained and kidnapped more than 23,000 Palestinians across the occupied West Bank and eastern Jerusalem since the start of the Gaza genocide, according to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club, which warns of escalating abuses, mass arrests of women and children, and thousands held under enforced disappearance.
US President Donald Trump has been making key decisions about the assault in Iran in a slapdash manner without input from his advisers, and was eager for a ceasefire to address rising fuel prices, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.
The Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) has submitted a formal denunciation to Sri Lankan authorities against an Israeli-American soldier over his “involvement in war crimes” in the Gaza Strip, including the “unlawful destruction” of civilian infrastructure. It is the first such case filed against an American citizen outside the US.