"He was actually a Politician ie Elected by the Palestinians to negotiate a Peace Settlement."
Wake up and smell the reality....the FACTS.Haniyeh was head of the Hamas list that won the Palestinian legislative elections of 2006, which campaigned on armed resistance against Israel, and so became Prime Minister of the State of Palestine. However, Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian President, dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007. Due to the then-ongoing Fatah–Hamas conflict, Haniyeh did not acknowledge Abbas' decree and continued to exercise prime ministerial authority in the Gaza Strip.[17] Haniyeh was the leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip from 2006 until February 2017, when he was replaced by Yahya Sinwar. Haniyeh was seen by many diplomats as one of the more pragmatic and moderate figures in Hamas.[18] From 2017 until his assassination by Israel in 2024, he had mostly lived in Qatar.[19]
On 6 May 2017, Haniyeh was elected chairman of Hamas's Political Bureau, replacing Khaled Mashal; at the time, Haniyeh relocated from the Gaza Strip to Qatar.[20][21] Under his tenure, Hamas launched the October 7th attack on Israel, which he celebrated in Doha.[22] Following Hamas' attack in late 2023, Israel declared its intention to assassinate all Hamas leaders.[22] In May 2024, Karim Khan, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, announced his intention to apply for an arrest warrant for Haniyeh, and other Hamas leaders, for war crimes and crimes against humanity, as part of the ICC investigation in Palestine.[23][24][25]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ismail_Haniyeh
