GAZA STRIP: On Tuesday, Hamas claimed an Israeli air strike massacred 10 family members of its Qatar-based chief Ismail Haniyeh, who promised to persist in the “resistance” march against Israel, quoted by Dawn News.
Israel’s military claimed that it “was aware of the reports but we cannot confirm” them.
The strike attack on the Haniyeh family home in the Al-Shati refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, Hamas and Gaza’s civil defence agency stated.
“There are 10 martyrs […] as a result of the strike, including Zahr Haniyeh, sister of Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh,” Mahmud Basal, ambassador for the civil defence, stated.
He claimed, “Several bodies were likely to be still under the rubble but we do not have the necessary equipment to extract them”.
Haniyeh says about 60 members of his family have been killed since Oct 7
Civil defence army shared the retrieved bodies with Al-Ahli hospital in nearby Gaza City, Basal counted further, also mentioning “several wounded” in the strike.
In a report, Hamas named the Haniyeh family home as having been destructed in a list of “massacres” it stated were vowed by Israel in the Palestinian territory.
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It stated this presented Israel “continues to defy all international laws, human norms and values by deliberately targeting innocent civilians and committing the most horrific massacres against them”. In an individual report later on Tuesday, Haniyeh claimed the deaths of his relatives would not discourage the group in any situation.
“If the criminal enemy thinks that targeting my family will make us change our position and affect our resistance, then he is deluding himself because every martyr in Gaza and Palestine is from my family,” Haniyeh claimed.
“The blood of our martyrs demands that we do not compromise, that we do not change, that we do not weaken, but that we continue on our path with determination.” Haniyeh strayed three sons and four grandchildren in an Israeli attack in April in central Gaza, with the army blaming them of “terrorist activities”.
Haniyeh at the situation claimed, “that about 60 members of his family had been killed since fighting broke out on October 7.”
Published in Dawn News
