Khalil al-Hayya (
Arabic
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: خليل الحية) is a senior
Hamas
Hamas (, ; , ; an acronym of , "Islamic Resistance Movement") is a Palestinian Sunni-Islamic fundamentalist, militant, and nationalist organization. It has a social service wing, Dawah, and a military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Bri ...
official who was
elected to the Palestinian Legislative Council on 25 January 2006 as a representative of
Gaza City
Gaza (;''The New Oxford Dictionary of English'' (1998), , p. 761 "Gaza Strip /'gɑːzə/ a strip of territory in Palestine, on the SE Mediterranean coast including the town of Gaza...". ar, غَزَّة ', ), also referred to as Gaza City, i ...
. He resided in the neighborhood of
Shuja'iyya.
Khalil al-Hayya said they
attacked Israel on October 7th since it was necessary to “change the entire equation and not just have a clash,” he also said: “We succeeded in putting the Palestinian issue back on the table, and now no one in the region is experiencing calm.” To NYT He told that Hamas does not care about running Gaza, and he said Hamas began October 7 was to cause a permenant state of war.
Seven or eight of his relatives, including two of his brothers, were killed by Israeli strikes on his home in 2007. One of his sons was killed by an Israeli airstrike in 2008 while leading
a rocket brigade. Another son, daughter-in-law, and grandson were killed by an airstrike on his home in July 2014 during the
2014 Israel–Gaza conflict
The 2014 Gaza War, also known as Operation Protective Edge ( he, מִבְצָע צוּק אֵיתָן, translit=Miv'tza Tzuk Eitan, ),
was a military operation launched by Israel on 8 July 2014 in the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian territories, Pale ...
.
al-Hayya has called on the
United Nations
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to
recognize Palestine within its
pre-1948 borders.
See also
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Ahmad Bahar
Haj Sheikh Ahmad Bahar (1889 Mashad, Iran – 1957 Tehran, Iran) was an Iranian politician, a patriotic poet, prominent journalist, writer, publisher and farmer.
Literary career
He was one of the best students of late Sheikh Abdoljavad Adib Neish ...
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Hamas members
Members of the 2006 Palestinian Legislative Council
People from Gaza City
Islamic University of Gaza alumni
1960 births
Living people
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