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In April this year, an Israeli attack in northern Gaza killed the three sons of the Hamas leader and his grandchildren.
Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 10 family members of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in the Al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza.
Among the victims was Haniyeh’s 80-year-old sister Zar Abdul Salam Haniyeh, She and her children were found by the Gaza Civil Defence.
Mahmoud Bashar, spokesman for Gaza Civil Defence Tell AFP said that several bodies were still buried under the rubble, but could not be salvaged due to the lack of necessary equipment.
In a statement Al JazeeraHamas said that US President Biden is responsible for continuing to wage a “war of annihilation” against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.
Hamas also called on the international community and the United Nations to “take responsibility for these ongoing terrorist crimes, take urgent action to protect innocent civilians, and hold the terrorist leaders in the occupied territories accountable for their crimes.”
Last April, on the first day of Eid al-Fitr, an Israeli airstrike on a civilian car killed three of Haniyeh’s adult sons and four young grandchildren, all under the age of 10. The Israeli military accused them of being on their way to “carry out terrorist activities.”
Haniyeh, who now lives in Qatar, learned the news by phone while visiting wounded Palestinians evacuated from Gaza and being treated at a hospital in Doha.
He said about 60 members of his family had been killed since the fighting broke out on October 7.
Although the attack came at a critical moment in ongoing ceasefire talks in Cairo, Haniyeh stressed that Hamas would not withdraw its demands for a comprehensive ceasefire and the unconditional return of displaced Palestinians.
“If they think that targeting my children at the height of the negotiations, before Hamas submits its response, will induce Hamas to change its position, they are delusional,” Haniyeh said.
He went on to say: “The blood of my children is not more precious than the blood of the children of the Palestinian people. All the martyrs of Palestine are my children.”
Haniyeh noted that Israel is “driven by the spirit of revenge, murder and bloodshed and does not abide by any standards or laws.”
“We have seen it destroy everything on the land of Gaza. It is a war of ethnic cleansing and genocide. It is massive displacement,” he told Al Jazeera.
According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, Israel’s air, land and sea attacks have killed at least 37,626 people in Gaza, mainly women and children.
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