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I guess it was merely a lunch break when the attacks slowed down a bit.
The past couple of hours have been very intense in the Gaza Strip
What we see on the ground now, despite the talks in Cairo and despite the Israeli military [withdrawal of some troops], there is an exponential surge of attacks across the Gaza Strip.
There’s been a surge in air strikes across the central area, eastern Khan Younis city, Wadi Gaza and also the northern part of the strip.
Particularly in the northwestern part of Gaza City, around the Shati refugee camp, where six people, the sons and grandsons of Hamas’s political leader Ismail Haniyeh, were in a vehicle on their way to visit – because it’s the first day of Eid – their relatives, when a drone fired at least two missiles that completely incinerated the vehicle.
Across the central area [of the Gaza Strip], more people have been transferred to Al-Aqsa Hospital who were critically injured by attacks on residential homes. The eastern part of Khan Younis is under almost nonstop constant artillery and shelling.
A new low to disrupt ceasefire talks
Israeli air attack kills 3 children, 3 grandchildren of Hamas leader Haniyeh: Report
Shehab news agency is reporting that three sons of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and three of his grandchildren have been killed in an Israeli air raid on Gaza.
The deadly attack targeting Ismail Haniyeh’s sons and their children took place on the Shati refugee camp, northwest of Gaza City.
Hamas chief confirms killing of sons
In an interview with Al Jazeera, Haniyeh identified his slain children as Hazem, Amir and Mohammad. He also said a number of his grandchildren were also killed in the Israeli attack, joining dozens of his relatives who have been killed in the war so far.
“Through the blood of the martyrs and the pain of the injured, we create hope, we create the future, we create independence and freedom for our people and our nation,” the Hamas leader said.
Haniyeh told Al Jazeera his children were visiting relatives for Eid at the Shati refugee camp in northern Gaza when they were targeted. The Hamas chief decried what he described as Israel’s brutality, but he stressed that Palestinian leaders will not back down if their families and homes are targeted.
“There is no doubt that this criminal enemy is driven by the spirit of revenge and the spirit of murder and bloodshed, and it does not observe any standards or laws,” Haniyeh said, adding that 60 members of his family have been killed since the start of the war.
“We’ve seen it violate everything on the land of Gaza. There is a war of ethnic cleansing and genocide. There is mass displacement.”
Israel committed ‘massacre’ against Haniyeh’s faimily, Gaza media office says
The office says Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh’s children and grandchildren were killed by Israeli fighter jets when a “civilian vehicle” was targeted on the first day of Eid al-Fitr. Several of his children and grandchildren were riding in the vehicle, it said.
“We strongly condemn Israel’s ongoing attacks against our Palestinian people,” the office said, adding that at least 125 bodies of slain Palestinians arrived to various hospitals in the past 24 hours alone.
“We hold the US administration, the international community responsible, and the Israeli occupation responsible for these massacres and crimes that are still taking place in this ongoing genocide,” it added.
Israeli army claims attack on Haniyeh’s children in Gaza
Israeli army spokesperson Daniel Hagari says fighter jets attacked “three military operatives” in central Gaza, referring to a car carrying Haniyeh’s children, who were killed earlier today. He identified the three as Amir, Hazem and Mohammad Haniyeh.
The Israeli army “confirms” that they are “the children of Ismail Haniyeh”, Hagari said.
At least three of Haniyeh’s grandchildren were also killed in the attack. Haniyeh told Al Jazeera earlier today they were visiting relatives for Eid at the Shati refugee camp in northern Gaza when they were targeted.
Who is Ismail Haniyeh?
We’ve been reporting for the past few hours on the killing of six members of the Hamas leader’s family, including three of his sons, in an Israeli air strike on north Gaza.
But who is Ismail Haniyeh? Here’s an in-depth look at his life and his rise to the senior leadership of the Hamas organisation:
- Haniyeh was born in 1962 in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza to parents who fled from the city of Asqalan after the state of Israel was created in 1948.
- In 1983, Haniyeh joined the Islamic Student Bloc, a precursor to Hamas.
- He graduated in 1987, a year that marked the first Palestinian mass uprising against Israeli occupation, known as the first Intifada, and the subsequent founding of Hamas as an official group.
- In 1988, he was jailed for six months and spent another three years in prison in 1989 on charges that he belonged to Hamas.
- Following his release, Israel deported Haniyeh along with other senior Hamas leaders to southern Lebanon, where he spent a year.
- In 2001, as the second Intifada erupted, Haniyeh consolidated his position as one of Hamas’s political leaders.
- Haniyeh escaped an Israeli assassination attempt in 2003.
- He rose to prominence in 2006 when he led Hamas to a legislative election victory over the Fatah movement, which had been in power for more than a decade.
- Haniyeh briefly served as prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, but after Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip, he was dismissed by the president of the PA, Mahmoud Abbas, even as he remained the de facto leader in the Gaza Strip.
- In 2017, Haniyeh was elected head of Hamas’s political bureau and around this time he relocated to Qatar.
