Israeli missile strike kills three sons, four grandchildren of Hamas political leader

Israeli missile strike kills three sons, four grandchildren of Hamas political leader

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh’s three sons and three grandchildren were murdered in an Israeli airstrike on a Gaza refugee camp, according to the Hamas-affiliated news agency Shehab.

Haniyeh told Al Jazeera that his children were targeted while visiting relatives for Eid at the Shati refugee camp in northern Gaza.

The Hamas president condemned what he called Israel’s savagery, but he emphasized that Palestinian leaders will not back down if their families and homes are harmed.

“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.

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“We’ve seen it violate everything on the land of Gaza. There is a war of ethnic cleansing and genocide. There is mass displacement.”

Also, Gaza’s media office confirmed that Haniyeh’s children and grandchildren were killed by Israeli fighter jets when a “civilian vehicle” was targeted on the first day of Eid el-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 at 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 missile strike kills three sons, four grandchildren of Hamas political leader