A strike within the northern Gaza Strip killed a sister of Ismail Haniyeh, the political chief of Hamas, and her household on Tuesday, the armed group and a Gazan rescue official stated.
Hamas confirmed the dying of Mr. Haniyeh’s sister, Zaher Haniyeh, in a press release. The Israeli navy stated it was conscious of the reviews however couldn’t “at the moment verify” that it had struck the Haniyeh household house.
Mr. Haniyeh, who heads the Hamas political bureau from exile in Qatar, is a longstanding political chief of the group that governs the Gaza Strip and that launched the lethal Oct. 7 assault on Israel.
Mahmoud Basal, a spokesman for the Palestinian Civil Protection, stated that emergency rescue crews had eliminated the our bodies of Mr. Haniyeh’s sister, her husband and their eight kids from their house within the Shati neighborhood in northern Gaza, which was demolished within the strike.
An Israeli airstrike in April killed three of Mr. Haniyeh’s sons and three of his grandchildren whereas they have been touring in a automotive in Gaza. The Israeli navy confirmed the strike and stated the sons have been lively in Hamas’s navy operations.
On the time, Mr. Haniyeh didn’t specify his sons’ roles within the group however referred to as them martyrs. He stated that 60 members of his prolonged household had been killed by Israel over time.