This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Khalil al-Hayya (Arabic: خليل الحية; born 5 November 1960) is a Palestinian politician who has served as the deputy chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau since August 2024, succeeding deceased Saleh al-Arouri.

[5] In November 2019, al-Hayya and Rouhi Mushtaha led a delegation that departed from the Gaza Strip to visit several countries, including Turkey and Lebanon.

[7] In January 2022, he visited Algeria alongside Husam Badran for intra-Palestinian reconciliation discussions between Hamas and Fatah, following an invitation from Algerian President Abdelmajid Tebboune.

[11][12] Secret meeting minutes reviewed by The New York Times revealed that in July 2023, al-Hayya discussed plans of the 7 October Hamas-led attack on Israel with senior Iranian commander Mohammed Said Izadi of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, who was based in Lebanon and helped oversee Tehran’s relations with Palestinian armed groups.

[3] In 2009, al-Hayya addressed coercive measures, such as mandates for female lawyers to wear hijabs and prohibitions on public touching, stating, "Neither the government nor Hamas has come out with any decision regarding such orders.

[15] al-Hayya said Hamas attacked Israel on October 7th since it was necessary to "change the entire equation and not just have a clash," he also said: “We succeeded in putting the Palestinian issue back on the table, and now no one in the region is experiencing calm.

He called for a redefinition of the PA’s role based on a comprehensive national vision and emphasized the need for a revamped leadership "on the basis of a political program representing all the Palestinians and a mechanism for confronting the occupation."

[19] In April 2024, al-Hayya said that Hamas would agree to a cease-fire with Israel, lay down its arms and transform into a political party if an independent Palestinian state is established on the pre-1967 borders.