Report: Hamas appoints Muhammad Ismail Darwish as new interim leader

Gianluca Pacchiani is the Arab affairs reporter for The Times of Israel

The successor to Ismail Haniyeh at the head of Hamas’s political wing will be Muhammad Ismail Darwish, the Saudi-based Al Arabiya news channel reports, citing unnamed sources.

Darwish, who lives in Qatar, will lead the terror group’s politburo until new elections are held, sources add.

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