New Delhi:
Israeli troops have struck the home of high Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in Gaza. The Israeli Defence Forces shared a video as we speak of fighter jets bombing a home, which they declare is Ismail Haniyeh’s.
Haniyeh is the top of Hamas’ political bureau and among the many highest-ranking officers within the organisation that governs Gaza. He’s considered the top of Hamas by a number of international locations.
Israel claims Haniyeh’s home was “used as terrorist infrastructure” and was getting used as a gathering level by senior Hamas leaders to direct terror assaults in opposition to Israeli civilians and IDF troopers.
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Haniyeh got here into the limelight within the late Nineteen Nineties and was the right-hand man to the Hamas founder, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, in Gaza earlier than the cleric was assassinated in 2004.
He was elected because the Palestine Prime Minister after main Hamas to victory in 2006.
Haniyeh was chosen because the Hamas chief in 2017 and has largely managed his group’s political actions from outdoors Gaza.
Israeli troops as we speak additionally situated and destroyed a Hamas naval forces weapons cache, containing diving gear, explosive units and weapons, the IDF mentioned.
Israel has vowed to eradicate Hamas in retaliation for the assaults of October 7, which killed 1,200 folks, most of them civilians.
Hamas additionally took round 240 folks hostage, amongst them aged folks and younger youngsters.
However with the Hamas-run well being ministry claiming the dying toll from the offensive has now topped 11,500, together with 1000’s of youngsters, requires a truce are mounting.
