Hamas leaders live in exile and are hardly in Israel's sights. Ismael Haniye, whom everyone agrees to place at the top of the Islamist leadership, resides in Doha protected by the Qatari regime, but most of his extended family has been trapped in occupied Gaza. More than sixty of its members have fallen victim to Tel Aviv's retaliation after the October 7 attacks. The last 'neutralized' by the army lost their lives this Wednesday when the vehicle in which they were traveling through the Shati refugee camp, in the north of the Strip, was hit by a drone.
It was a very painful blow for Haniye, who in this punishment operation saw three of his sons – Muhammad, Hazem and Amir – and two grandchildren – Khaled and Razan – die, according to the local newspaper 'Filastin' in the early afternoon. ', linked to the Palestinian fundamentalist group. The news was confirmed by the leader's first-born son, Abdel-Salam, through the social network Facebook. At the beginning of the war another granddaughter, Roaa Hammam, had died in a bombing.
The Hamas leader himself showed himself proud of his family's contribution to the Palestinian cause from Qatar. «Praise God for this honor that he granted us through the martyrdom of my three children and some grandchildren. All our people in Gaza have paid a high price with the blood of their children, and I am one of them. With this pain, we create hope, future and freedom for our people, our cause and our nation,” Ismael Haniye told Al-Jazeera television.
“It will make us stronger”
“The occupation believes that by attacking the leaders' children, it will break the resolve of our people. This blood will only make us firmer in our principles and adherence to our land. “The enemy will not achieve his objectives,” he remarked. He also said that the family's grief “will not affect Hamas' demands for a ceasefire.”
According to the latest balance provided by the Ministry of Health of the Gaza Strip, there are already more than 33,400 people dead, while the wounded have exceeded the figure of 76,000 since the start of the war, six months ago.
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Also found dead this Wednesday, with several gunshot wounds, in a mountain village on the outskirts of Beirut, a Lebanese sanctioned for allegedly funneling millions of dollars to Hamas. Mohammad Surur came from a northeastern city near the Syrian border and worked in currency exchanges and money transfers, between groups backed by Iran and opposed to Israel.
Despite the efforts of international mediators to reach a truce, Israel bombed Gaza again, coinciding with the Eid al-Fitr holiday, which marks the end of the Muslim fasting month. This offensive was disfigured by US President Joe Biden, who harshly criticized the military strategy in the Strip of the Government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “I simply ask that the Israelis call a ceasefire that allows for the next six, eight weeks, full access to all food and medicine entering” the enclave, he declared.
But the Hebrew Government seems to first want to launch a ground operation against the city of Rafah, which it describes as the last Hamas stronghold in the Strip. This city on the border with Egypt is home, according to the United Nations, about one and a half million people, most of them displaced, and there are fears of a large number of victims in the event of a new military intervention.
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