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• Ismail Haniya is the head if the Palestinian Hamas movement and the fifth Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority. He rose to the top of Hamas after the Israeli assassinations of Ahmed Yassin and Abdel-Aziz Rantisi during the Al-Aqsa Intifada in 2002. He was nominated for Prime Minister after Hamas' victory in the Palestinian legislative election on January 25, 2006.

• Fast Facts

  1. Born: January 1963 in a Palestinian refugee camp
  2. Deported with other Hamas leaders in 1992
  3. Sworn in as Prime Minister on March 29, 2006
  4. Resigned as Prime Minister on February 15, 2007 to allow for a Unity government between Hamas and Fatah
  5. Sworn in as head of the new Unity cabinet on March 18, 2007
  6. Dismissed by President Mahmoud Abbas on June 14, 2007

• Dismissal

  In the face of internal confilct and Western economic and political pressure, the Hamas government was dismissed by President Mahmoud Abbas in 2007 and Salam Fayyad was appointed to replace Haniya. The appointment was not approved and deemed illegal by the Palestinian Legislative Council, so Haniyah is still the "official" Prime Minister and continues to exercise authority in the Gaza Strip.

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  Hamas | Fatah-Hamas Conflict | Palestinian State | Gaza Strip | The West Bank | Israeli-Palestinian Conflict | Terrorism | Mahmoud Abbas | Israel | Salam Fayyad

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