CAIRO (Reuters) – Khaled Meshaal, tipped to be Hamas’ future leader, rose to prominence in 1997 after Israeli agents injected him with poison in a botched assassination attempt on a street outside his office in Amman, Jordan.

The assassination of a major senior official in the Palestinian militant group, ordered by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, infuriated Jordan’s then-King Hussein, who threatened to hang the would-be killers and cancel Jordan’s peace accord with Israel unless the antidote was handed over.

Israel did so and promised to release Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, only to kill him seven years later in Gaza.

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