Deadly Israeli airstrike prompts comments by Ismail Haniyeh, as two sides remain far apart on key issues

Three sons and at least two grandchildren of the Hamas leader, Ismail Haniyeh, have been killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, the exiled political chief of the militant group has said from his base in the Qatari capital of Doha.

Haniyeh told Al Jazeera on Wednesday that his children Hazem, Amir and Mohammed and several of their children were visiting relatives for Eid at the Shati refugee camp in northern Gaza when their car was targeted in an Israeli airstrike. Sixty of his relatives had been killed in the six-month-old war, he said, including 14 who died after an Israeli airstrike hit the family home in Gaza City in October.

Continue reading…

You May Also Like

Poet Jackie Kay: ‘I could have been brought up by Tories!’

The writer, who was adopted as a baby by Scottish communists, on…

School summer holidays in England should be cut to four weeks, report says

Nuffield Foundation to also recommend longer half-term breaks in proposed overhaul of…

If you care for the BBC start worrying: Michael Grade is a threat in plain sight | Jane Martinson

No 10 and its culture secretary were looking for someone willing to…