With Gaza facing unprecedented devastation, experts and analysts have cast doubt on Hamas’s ability to maintain its traditional internal regulations for selecting a new leader following Israel’s killing of Yahya Sinwar.
The movement, typically reliant on elections and Shura Council processes from the grassroots to the top leadership, is now likely to pursue a different path through consensus and understanding between its various organisational levels to choose a new head of its political bureau and other key positions.
This significant departure from established protocols comes amid extraordinary circumstances that make traditional electoral processes virtually impossible. ….more