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Here’s a have a look at the lifetime of Khaled Meshaal, former political chief of Hamas.
Beginning date: 1956
Beginning place: Silwad, West Financial institution
Beginning identify: Khaled Meshaal
Father: Imam, identify unavailable publicly
Mom: Title unavailable publicly
Marriage: Title unavailable publicly, (1981-present)
Kids: Seven
Schooling: Kuwait College, Bachelor of Science in Physics, 1978
Faith: Sunni Muslim
1967 – After the Six-Day Conflict, Meshaal’s household strikes from the West Financial institution to Jordan after which to Kuwait.
1971 – Meshaal joins the Muslim Brotherhood.
1978-1984 – Works as a physics instructor in Kuwait.
1980 – Founds the Islamic League for Palestinian College students.
December 1987 – Palestinian cleric Sheikh Ahmed Yassin founds Hamas, a by-product of the Muslim Brotherhood. Meshaal joins and turns into the chief of the Hamas chapter in Kuwait.
August 2, 1990 – Iraq invades Kuwait. Reportedly, Iraqi chief Saddam Hussein determined to invade the small, oil-rich nation so as to repay money owed incurred throughout Iraq’s eight-year battle with Iran. Palestinian Liberation Group chief Yasser Arafat helps Hussein.
1991 – US and coalition forces defeat Iraq and liberate Kuwait. Kuwait then expels 300,000 Palestinians from the nation, together with Meshaal.
1991 – Meshaal settles in Jordan and leads its Hamas chapter. He’s answerable for worldwide fund-raising.
1996 – Turns into chief of Hamas’ political bureau.
September 1997 – Israeli Mossad brokers, posing as Canadian vacationers, spray fentanyl into Meshaal’s ear in an assassination try in Amman, Jordan. The Mossad brokers are captured. King Hussein of Jordan tells Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the brokers will likely be placed on trial if Meshaal will not be given the antidote. Netanyahu reluctantly agrees and Meshaal recovers. As a part of the deal, Israel releases plenty of Palestinian and Jordanian prisoners, together with Yassin.
September 22, 1999 – Meshaal, together with two different Hamas leaders, is accused of unlawful political exercise and briefly imprisoned in Jordan. After his launch, Jordan’s King Abdullah II closes Hamas’ workplace in Amman and expels Meshaal from the county. Meshaal strikes to Qatar.
2001 – Relocates to Damascus, Syria.
March 22, 2004 – Yassin, chief of Hamas, is killed by Israeli air strikes.
March 23, 2004 – Dr. Abdel Aziz Rantisi is called as Yassin’s successor.
April 17, 2004 – Rantisi is killed by an Israeli airstrike on his automotive. Meshaal rises to the highest of the Hamas management, together with Ismail Haniya.
January 26, 2006 – Hamas, taking part for the primary time in Palestinian parliamentary elections, wins a landslide victory. Hamas wins 76 seats, and Fatah 43 seats, within the 132-seat Palestinian Legislative Council, giving Hamas a majority.
June 14, 2007 – After every week of battles between Hamas and Fatah, Hamas seizes management of Gaza.
April 18, 2008 – Former US President Jimmy Carter meets with Meshaal, in Damascus, Syria.
December 27, 2008 – Israel launches Operation Forged Lead, air strikes towards Hamas targets in Gaza in retaliation for continued rocket assaults towards southern Israel. A floor offensive begins on January 3, 2009.
January 18, 2009 – Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert declares a unilateral cease-fire within the preventing in Gaza. In the course of the battle, greater than 1,200 Palestinians are killed, together with 13 Israelis.
February 1, 2009 – Meshaal meets with Iran’s Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Talking of Operation Forged Lead, he praises Iran: “The victory of the individuals of Gaza was a miracle of God and the Islamic Republic positively has a share on this victory.”
Could 4, 2011 – Meshaal and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas signal a reconciliation settlement in an effort to unite rivals Hamas and Fatah.
December 2011 – Hamas sides with the opposition within the Syrian civil battle, towards President Bashar al-Assad. Meshaal abandons the Hamas workplace in Damascus.
January 29, 2012 – Meshaal makes his first official go to to Jordan since being expelled in 1999. He and Qatar’s Crown Prince, Sheikh Tamin Bin Hamad Al-Thani, meet with King Abdullah II.
February 2012 – Meshaal strikes to Doha, Qatar.
December 7, 2012 – Meshaal visits Gaza. Except a quick go to to the West Financial institution in 1975, it’s his first go to to the Palestinian territories since leaving the West Financial institution in 1967. He seems earlier than crowds, standing in entrance of a duplicate of an M75 rocket, “We’ll by no means acknowledge the legitimacy of the Israeli occupation,” he says, “and subsequently there isn’t any legitimacy for Israel, regardless of how lengthy it’s going to take we’ll free Jerusalem inch by inch, stone by stone. Israel has no proper to be in Jerusalem.”
April 2, 2013 – Meshaal is reelected chairman of Hamas’ political bureau.
Could 6, 2017 – Haniya, Meshaal’s alternative, is elected by Hamas’ Shura Council.
April 12, 2021 – In accordance with a spokesperson from the Palestinian Islamist Hamas motion, Meshaal is elected head of the group’s diaspora workplace.
