Ismail Haniyeh
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Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority Disputed |
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In office 29 March 2006* – 2 June 2014 |
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Mahmoud Abbas Aziz Duwaik |
| Preceded by | Ahmed Qurei |
| Succeeded by | Rami Hamdallah |
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29 January 1963 Al-Shati, Gaza Strip |
| Political party | Hamas |
| Religion | Sunni Islam |
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Ismail Abdel Salam Ahmed Haniyeh (Arabic: إسماعيل عبد السلام أحمد هنية, Ismaʻīl Haniyya; sometimes transliterated as Ismail Haniya, Ismail Haniyah, Ismail Hanieh; 
Arabic pronunciation ; born 29 January 1963) is a senior political leader of Hamas and formerly one of two disputed Prime Ministers of the Palestinian National Authority. Haniyeh became prime minister after Hamas won the Palestinian legislative elections of 2006. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah–Hamas conflict, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continued to exercise prime ministerial authority in the Gaza Strip. September 2016 reports indicate that Haniyeh will replace Khaled Meshaal as head leader of Hamas.
Haniyeh was born in the Al-Shati refugee camp in the Egyptian-occupied Gaza Strip. His parents became refugees, after they fled their homes near what is now Ashkelon, Israel during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. He attended United Nations-run schools and in 1987, graduated from the Islamic University of Gaza with a degree in Arabic literature. While at university he had become involved with Hamas. From 1985 to 1986 he was head of the students' council representing the Muslim Brotherhood. He also played as a midfielder in the Islamic Association football team. He graduated at about the same time as the First Intifada against the Israeli occupation started in the Gaza Strip.
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