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Apr. 12, 2021 Former Hamas chief Khaled Meshal was elected to be head of the Palestinian Islamist group's office in the diaspora, a spokesman said on Monday. Meshal, 64, who survived an Israeli assassination attempt in 1997, was head of the political bureau until 2017 when he was replaced by Ismail Haniyeh, 59, who is based in Gaza. Although Hamas's power base is in Gaza, which it has controlled since 2007, it also has many followers among refugees and others in the Middle East and elsewhere. In 2012 Meshal angered close Hamas ally Syria when he left Damascus because of Iranian-backed Preside...

Khaled Mashaal speaks in Doha, Qatar, August 28, 2014. (AP/Osama Faisal/File) The last Hamas internal vote was conducted in 2017. Haniyeh took the top spot at the time, replacing Mashaal, who had held the post since 1996. Haniyeh had previously served as Hamas’s Gaza chief. The announcement that Mashaal is to serve as Hamas’s second-in-command, and as head of its diaspora division, makes it more likely that Haniyeh — with no obvious challenger in sight — will serve another four-year term as chief of the organization’s political bureau. Unlike Fatah elections, which are festive event...