Ismail Haniyeh is the leader of Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist movement designated by the US and European Union as a terrorist organization because of its “armed resistance” against Israel. Haniyeh, who is currently based in Qatar, has always supported terror attacks against Israel and remains fully committed to Hamas’s covenant, which states that the land of “Palestine” belongs only to Muslims and rejects any “initiatives or so-called peaceful solutions and international conferences.” The Hamas covenant further states that “there is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad [holy war].”
