A man stands in the rubble of the house of the sister of Ismail Haniyeh, after it was hit by Israeli bombardment in the Shati camp for Palestinian refugees west of Gaza City on June 25, 2024. (Photo by Omar Al-Qattaa / AFP)
Gaza Strip, Palestinian Territories: The Gaza civil defence agency said an Israeli air strike early on Tuesday killed 10 members of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh's family, in an attack the Israeli military did not immediately confirm.
The strike hit the Haniyeh family home in Al-Shati refugee camp, in the northern Gaza Strip, said Mahmud Basal, spokesman for the territory's civil defence.
"There are 10 martyrs... as a result of the strike, including Zahr Haniyeh, sister of Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh," Basal told AFP.
He said a number of bodies were likely still under the rubble but "we do not have the necessary equipment" to extract them.
Civil defence crews transferred the bodies to Al-Ahli hospital in nearby Gaza City, Basal added, also reporting "several wounded" in the attack.
Haniyeh, Hamas's political leader, lost three sons and four grandchildren in an Israeli strike in April in central Gaza.
Haniyeh at the time said that about 60 members of his family had been killed since Gaza war broke out in October.
