Report: Sister of Hamas leader Haniyeh killed in Al-Shati, Gaza

One of the sisters of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was reportedly killed in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza city.

According to Hebrew media, Palestinian sources say 13 people were killed in an air strike on a building owned by the extended family of the head of the Hamas political bureau.

In early April, Israel targeted and killed three of Haniyeh’s sons, identified as members of the terrorist group Hamas, as well as four grandchildren – three girls and a boy – according to Hamas sources.

Israeli police had previously arrested one of his sisters, an Israeli citizen who lives in Tel Sheva. Three of Haniyeh’s sisters reportedly live in the southern city and are married to Arab Israelis. Two of them are widowed and faced legal consequences for unauthorized travel to Gaza via Egypt in 2013, which led to suspended sentences in 2015.

Further details about which of Haniyeh’s sisters was killed are not immediately clear.

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