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August 2024 |Mahjubah Magazine45Personal life and familyIsmail Haniyeh was born on January 29, 1963 in al-Shati camp in Gaza. The main place of his family%u2019s life before the displacement was the village of Al-Jurah in Ashkelon. His three sisters have been living in Tel as-Sabi settlement in the Negev desert since the 1970s.EducationAfter completing his primary and secondary education in UNRWA schools in al-Shati Refugee Camp in Gaza, he joined the al-Azhar religious seminary in Gaza and entered the Islamic University of Gaza in 1981 and became a member of the Islamic Association of this university. He was the chairman of the student council of the university from 1985 to 1986. He received a bachelor%u2019s degree in Arabic from the Faculty of Education of the Islamic University of Gaza.ExileOn 17/12/1992, he was exiled to Marj Elzohur in southern Lebanon along with 415 leaders and activists of Hamas and Islamic Jihad.Unsuccessful AssassinationOn 6/9/2003, when he and Sheikh Ahmed Yassin had gone to visit Dr. Marwan Abu Ras, an F-16 plane bombed the place where they were. The roof collapsed but all of them were able to get out of the house and be saved.Activities and Positions%u2022 Former Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the Islamic University of Gaza%u2022 Former academic director of the Islamic University of Gaza%u2022 Member of the High Committee of Hamas for dialogue with other Palestinian groups and the Palestinian National Authority%u2022 Member of the High Intifada Follow-up Committee on behalf of Hamas%u2022 A member of the political leadership of HamasHe lost three of his sons and three grandsons in an airstrike on Gaza by the Zionist regime on April 10, 2024.MartyrdomOn the morning of July 31, 2024, one day after the inauguration ceremony of Dr. Masoud Pezeshkian as the ninth president of Iran, Ismail Haniyeh, who had come to Tehran to attend the, was martyred along with one of his bodyguards.