Three sons and ‘several’ grandchildren of Hamas supreme leader Ismail Haniyeh ‘are killed in Israeli airstrike’ in Gaza Strip

Three sons and ‘a number of’ grandchildren of Hamas’ high chief, Ismail Haniyeh, have been killed in an Israeli airstrike within the Gaza Strip, kinfolk and official Hamas media stated at this time.    

Stories state that Hazem, Ameer, and Mohammed Haniyeh had been killed alongside relations in a deadly strike close to the Shati refugee camp in Gaza Metropolis.

The Hamas political chief confirmed the deaths to Al Jazeera.

‘I’m grateful to God for the dignity he has given me within the deaths of three of my kids and some of my grandchildren,’ Haniyeh stated, from Qatar. 

‘My sons had been awarded this honor. They remained with our Palestinian individuals in Gaza, didn’t go away and didn’t run,’ he added.

The Qatar-based political head of the Palestinian militant group confirmed to Al Jazeera ‘the martyrdom of my three sons and a few of my grandchildren’.

He claimed his household was focused whereas driving in a automobile close to the Shati refugee camp in Gaza Metropolis. 

The fear chief hit out at Israel, stating they’re ‘pushed by the spirit of revenge’ as he claimed round 60 members of his household have been killed for the reason that begin of the warfare. 

The fear chief stated: ‘By means of the blood of the martyrs and the ache of the injured, we create hope, we create the longer term, we create independence and freedom for our individuals and our nation,’ the phobia chief stated.

The three brothers – Hazem, Ameer and Mohammed – had been travelling with relations in a single car focused by an Israeli drone, Hamas’ Al-Aqsa TV stated. 

It revealed a complete of six individuals had been killed, together with a daughter of Hazem Haniyeh, and a son and daughter of Ameer.

Ismail Haniyeh, who now lives in exile in Qatar, is initially from Shati.

The deaths had been confirmed by Hamas’ Al-Aqsa TV station in addition to Haniyeh relations on social media.   

Nevertheless, Haniyeh said that the killing of his three sons ands grandchildren wouldn’t have an effect on Hamas’ calls for in ceasefire negotiations with Israel. 

There was no fast feedback from the IDF.

It comes after the Hamas Chief stated final Wednesday that his Palestinian Islamist motion at warfare with Israel was sticking to its circumstances for a ceasefire within the Gaza Strip, together with an Israeli army withdrawal.   

Israeli officers visited Egypt in the beginning of final week in a bid to safe a deal, however a Palestinian official near the mediation process stated there had been no indicators {that a} breakthrough was underway.

‘We’re dedicated to our calls for – the everlasting ceasefire, complete and full withdrawal of the enemy out of the Gaza Strip, the return of all displaced individuals to their properties, permitting all help wanted for our individuals in Gaza, rebuilding the Strip, lifting the blockade and reaching an honourable prisoner change deal,’ Haniyeh stated in a televised speech marking Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day.

The ‘change deal’ the supreme chief talked about could be the discharge of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails in return for Israeli hostages being held by militants in Gaza for the reason that lethal October 7 bloodbath on the Supernova music competition in Israel, led by Hamas. 

Israel responded saying it was solely fascinated with a short lived truce to free hostages, however Hamas stated it should solely allow them to go as a part of a deal to completely put an finish to the warfare.

U.S. President Joe Biden additionally commented on Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s dealing with of the warfare in Gaza – calling it a mistake.

Biden referred to as for his authorities to flood the war-torn territory with help, ramping up stress on Israel to succeed in a ceasefire and widening a rift between the staunch allies.

Palestinians in Gaza marked a muted Eid al-Fitr vacation ending the holy fasting month of Ramadan, visiting the graves of family members killed within the warfare. 

Within the Jabaliya refugee camp close to Gaza Metropolis, individuals sat quietly by graves surrounded by buildings destroyed by Israel’s offensive in response to the lethal Hamas assault on October 7.

Biden has been an outspoken supporter of Israel’s warfare towards Hamas. 

However in latest weeks his endurance with Netanyahu has appeared to wane and his administration has taken a extra stern line with Israel, rattling the international locations’ decades-old alliance and deepening Israel’s worldwide isolation over the warfare.

Essentially the most critical disagreement has been over Israel’s plans for an offensive within the southernmost Gaza metropolis of Rafah. 

The rift was worsened by an Israeli airstrike final week on an help convoy that killed seven employees with the World Central Kitchen charity, most of them foreigners. 

Israel stated the deaths had been unintentional however Biden was outraged.

Biden’s newest feedback, made in an interview that aired late Tuesday and recorded two days after the WCK strike, spotlight the variations between Israel and the U.S. over humanitarian help to individuals in Gaza, the place the warfare has led to warnings of imminent famine for greater than one million individuals.

‘What he is doing is a mistake. I do not agree together with his method,’ Biden informed Spanish-language broadcaster Univision when requested if Netanyahu was prioritising his political survival over Israel’s curiosity.

Biden stated Israel ought to conform to a cease-fire, flood beleaguered Gaza with help for the following six to eight weeks and permit different international locations within the area to assist distribute help. ‘It ought to be finished now,’ he stated.

Israel halted help deliveries to Gaza within the early days of the warfare, however underneath U.S. stress has slowly elevated vehicles allowed to enter the territory. 

Nonetheless, help teams say provides will not be reaching determined individuals rapidly sufficient, blaming Israeli restrictions and noting that 1000’s of vehicles are ready to enter Gaza. 

International locations have tried much less environment friendly methods to ship help together with airdrops and by sea.

Israel says its has opened up extra entry factors for vehicles to enter and attain particularly hard-hit areas like northern Gaza, an early goal of Israel within the warfare. 

Israel additionally accuses help teams of being too sluggish to ship help as soon as it is inside Gaza.

Help teams say logistical points and the precarious safety state of affairs – underscored by the WCK strike – complicate deliveries.

Israel and Hamas are engaged in talks meant to convey a couple of ceasefire in change for the discharge of hostages captured by Hamas and others on October 7. 

However the sides stay far aside on key points, together with the return of Palestinians to northern Gaza.

Netanyahu’s Safety Cupboard met late Tuesday to debate the hostage negotiations however didn’t seem to make any choices.

Netanyahu has vowed to attain ‘whole victory’ within the warfare, pledging to destroy Hamas’ army and governing capabilities to stop a repeat of the October 7 assaults and to return the hostages. 

He says that victory should embrace an offensive in Rafah, which Israel says is Hamas’ final main stronghold, however greater than half of Gaza’s 2.3million individuals are at the moment in search of shelter there.

Six months into the warfare, Israel is rising ever extra remoted, with even its closest associate more and more vocal about its discontent within the warfare’s course and longtime buying and selling companions like Turkey taking probably painful financial steps to precise dismay.

Netanyahu, who’s on trial for alleged corruption, is underneath stress to determine on a postwar imaginative and prescient for Gaza. 

However critics say he’s delaying as a result of he would not wish to anger his ultranationalist governing companions, who help resettling the Gaza Strip, which Israel withdrew from in 2005 and an thought Netanyahu has dominated out.

Netanyahu’s governing companions additionally oppose making important concessions to Hamas within the ongoing negotiations. 

They’ve threatened to exit the federal government – a step that may trigger the ruling coalition to break down and set off new elections.

‘If the prime minister thinks that there is going to be a reckless deal right here, it is not going to cross,’ Limor Sonn Har Melech, a lawmaker within the hard-line Jewish Energy get together, stated in an interview to an Israeli radio station. 

‘If we understand that the which means of stopping this warfare is capitulation to Hamas, we cannot be there.’

Israel launched the warfare in response to Hamas’ cross-border assault, the place militants killed 1,200 individuals, largely civilians, and took roughly 250 individuals hostage, in keeping with Israeli authorities.

Greater than 33,400 Palestinians have been killed within the relentless preventing, in keeping with Gaza’s Well being Ministry which does not differentiate between civilians and combatants in its depend however says many of the useless are ladies and youngsters. 

Israel says it has killed some 12,000 militants, with out offering proof.

The warfare has ignited a humanitarian disaster. 

Many of the territory’s inhabitants has been displaced and with huge swaths of Gaza’s city panorama leveled within the preventing, many areas are uninhabitable.