Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas ‘ leading political leader, was hardly reacting to the news that his three sons and four children had been killed in an Israeli strike, and he was compelled to continue with the doctor visit he was on.
Haniyeh, 61, was visiting injured Palestinians at the hospital in Qatar, where he lives in exile, on Wednesday when he got a call from one saying through cries in Arabic:” Hazem, Mohammed and Amir have been killed, along with their kids”.
Hamas ‘ tough-talking chief minister hardly reacts and maintains a lull in unsettling calmness, uttering the terms” God rest their souls.”
In light of the horrible development, Haniyeh lightly rejects the suggestion when an secretary asks Haniyeh if the hospital visit may be shortened.
” No, why? This proceed”, he says, sounding strangely cheerful as he walks to the entrance.
Haniyeh, who has 13 kids, according to Hamas options, afterward said in an interview with Al Jazeera that his household people “were , martyred on the road to free Jerusalem and the Al- Aqsa Mosque”.
On the first day of the Eid al-Fitr vacation, the best Hamas party’s sons and four children, three boys and one girl, were traveling in a vehicle through Gaza’s Shati migrant camp to visit family.
The Israeli military confirmed the airstrike, saying that Hanieyeh’s sons were targeted because they were terrorists.
It claimed there was” no information on that right now,” but it did not make any comments on the deaths of the grandchildren.
Haniyeh lashed out at Israel, saying it was “driven by the spirit of revenge”.
He claimed that the deaths of his loved ones would not soften Hamas ‘ position in the ongoing cease-fire negotiations with Israel.
” The blood of my sons is not dearer than the blood of our people”, he told Al Jazeera. The enemy will have delusions if it believes that Hamas will change its position when it begins to negotiate and before the movement sends its response.
According to Walla news citing senior officials, it has since been revealed that Israel Defense Forces ( IDF) carried out the bombing that allegedly killed Hanieyeh’s family members without consulting neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nor Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.
According to the report, the IDF and the Shin Bet internal security service planned the attack.
With Post wires
