Reports from Gaza have reported that three sons of Hamas Abroad leader Ismail Haniyeh have been killed in an Israeli attack in Gaza. Haaretz reported it. According to other media, it was an attack on a car which also involved the nephews of the Hamas leader. There is no further confirmation at the moment.
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh confirmed, in an interview with al Jazeera, the killing of three of his sons in an Israeli attack on Gaza, whom he identified as Hazem, Amir and Mohammad. Haniyeh added that some of his nephews were also hit in the same attack. "Through the blood of the martyrs and the pain of the wounded - he said, according to the same source - we create hope, future, independence and freedom for our people and our nation".
Haniyeh told Al Jazeera that her children were visiting relatives for Eid al-Fitr at Shati camp in northern Gaza when they were targeted.
The Hamas leader denounced what he described as "Israel's brutality" but stressed that Palestinian leaders will not back down if their families and homes are targeted. “There is no doubt that this criminal enemy is driven by the spirit of revenge and the spirit of murder and bloodshed, and does not observe any law,” Haniyeh accused, adding that 60 members of his family were killed by the beginning of the war.
“We have seen the enemy violate everything in the territory of Gaza.
There is a war of ethnic cleansing and genocide going on. There is mass displacement,” he added.
"The killing of my children will not affect Hamas' ceasefire calls." Leader Ismail Haniyeh said this, quoted by Haaretz. Shortly before, an Israeli source, quoted by the same newspaper, had claimed that the attack on Gaza could have derailed the negotiations in Cairo.