Salah al-Bardawil (Hamas)*

Salah al-Bardawil (صلاح البردويل), in 1959 in Khan Younes, was a senior member of Hamas, elected to the movement’s Politburo in 2021. He was also a member of Hamas’s regional politburo in Gaza and spokesperson. Bardawil was elected to the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) in 2006 as part of the group’s ‘Change and Reform’ list. He was detained by Israel in 1993.

Bardawil was killed in an Israeli airstrike in March 2025.