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As a prominent member of the movement that became Hamas in the late 1980s, Ismail Haniyeh is widely considered the group's overall leader.He was imprisoned in 1989 as part of the Israeli response to the first Palestinian uprising and then spent time in the 'no man's land' between Israel and Lebanon in 1992.
A year later, however, fighting broke out between Hamas and Fatah, ultimately ousting Fatah from Gaza and separating the Palestinian territories between the Hamas-controlled strip and Palestinian Authority-run West Bank.This made Haniyeh 'de facto leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip' between 2007 and 2017, according to Dr Abdul Bashid Shaikh, lecturer in Arabic and Islamic studies at the University of Leeds.Haniyeh remained as such until he was succeeded by Yahya Sinwar.
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