Israeli strike killed 10 relatives of Hamas chief: Gaza civil defence
Palestinian Territories – AFP
The Gaza civil defence agency said an Israeli air strike early on Tuesday killed 10 members of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh’s family, in an attack the Israeli military did not immediately confirm.
The strike hit the Haniyeh family home in Al-Shati refugee camp, in the northern Gaza Strip, said Mahmud Basal, spokesman for the territory’s civil defence.
“There are 10 martyrs… as a result of the strike, including Zahr Haniyeh, sister of Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh,” Basal told AFP.
He said a number of bodies were likely still under the rubble but “we do not have the necessary equipment” to extract them.
Civil defence crews transferred the bodies to Al-Ahli hospital in nearby Gaza City, Basal added, also reporting “several wounded” in the attack.
Contacted by AFP, the Israeli military said it “was aware of the reports but we cannot confirm” them.
Israel killed three sons and four grandchildren of Haniyeh, Hamas’s Qatar-based political leader, in a strike in April in central Gaza.
Haniyeh at the time said that about 60 members of his family had been killed since Israel began its current war on Gaza.
Israel has killed at least 37,626 people in Gaza, mostly women and children, according to the local health ministry.
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