Essam al-Dalis
Essam al-Dalis (عصام الدعاليس) was born in Jabalia in 1966 and lives in the Nuseirat Refugee Camp in central Gaza. He was elected to Hamas‘s Gaza leadership in March 2021. Then, in June 2021, he became the head of Hamas’s government administration in the Strip.
Al-Dalis was previously president of the Union of UNRWA Employees in Gaza. He was also an advisor to former Palestinian Authority prime minister and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.
In November 2023, Israel claimed to have bombed a Hamas structure in which al-Dalis was present with other leaders like Rawhi Mushtaha and Samih al-Saraj who were killed during the attack.