The three sons of Hamas supreme leader Ismail Haniyeh have been killed in Israeli airstrike.
The reports say Hazem, Ameer, and Mohammed Haniyeh were killed with family members in the strike near the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City. The report says several of Haniyeh’s grandchildren were also killed in the strike.
Israeli Defense Forces have not yet commented on the attack to confirm whether it was a targeted strike. The deaths were confirmed by Hamas’ Al-Aqsa TV station as well as Haniyeh family members on social media.
Haniya himself lives in Qatar, where many of Hamas' top leaders reside. Haniyeh is originally from Shati.
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The attack comes a day after U.S. President Joe Biden called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s handling of the war in Gaza a mistake and called for his government to flood the beleaguered territory with aid.
Pressure on Israel has been ramping up to reach a cease-fire and widening a rift between the staunch allies. However, Hamas leaders have rejected any proposal that doesn't have plans for a complete withdrawal.
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Israeli leaders are looking for a weeks-long ceasefire in which prisoners would be traded for hostages. In the negotiations, Hamas representatives have claimed that they can only account for fewer than 40 hostages. They say there are only so many women, elderly, and ailing hostages for whom it can account.
Hamas launched the war with a cross-border assault on October 7, where militants killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took roughly 250 people hostage, according to Israeli authorities. Of those, 130 are still in Gaza.
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More than 33,400 Palestinians have been killed in the relentless fighting, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry which doesn’t differentiate between civilians and combatants in its count but says most of the dead are women and children, without providing evidence. Israel says it has killed some 12,000 militants, also without providing evidence.
The war has ignited a humanitarian catastrophe. Most of the territory’s population has been displaced and with vast swaths of Gaza’s urban landscape leveled in the fighting, many areas are uninhabitable.
The scenes in Khan Younis underscored what has been one of the world’s most destructive and lethal military assaults in recent decades, leaving most of the tiny coastal territory unlivable for its 2.3 million people. It also portended what is likely to happen in Gaza’s southernmost town of Rafah, where half of Gaza’s uprooted population is now crowded, if Israel goes ahead with plans to invade it.