Gaza War: Ismail Haniyeh’s sister and a number of her family were killed in an Israeli raid, and Netanyahu confirms his commitment to Biden’s proposal

He added, “There are 10 martyrs and a number of injured as a result of the targeting of the Haniyeh family, including Zahr Haniyeh, the sister of the head of the Hamas political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh.”

The head of the Hamas political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, said in his comment on the killing of his sister and a group of family members, that targeting 11 people from his family will not change the movement’s positions and resistance, he said.

This came in a press statement after his sister and a number of his family members were killed in an Israeli bombing of their home west of Gaza.

Haniyeh added that the blood of the dead forces them to continue on their path and not to compromise, appease, weaken or despair, stressing at the same time that the movement showed utmost flexibility and agreed without hesitation to all the projects that were proposed on the condition that the result of this would be a cessation of crimes, an end to the war, and a complete withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, as he put it. .

He added that they are still adhering to their position of rejecting any agreement that does not guarantee a ceasefire and an end to what he described as aggression, stressing that the movement’s position will not change at any stage.

Haniyeh explained that all ideas about the next day and internal house arrangements must be purely Palestinian, and no one has the right to interfere in them, neither Israel nor anyone else, as he said.

The Hamas movement condemned the attack that targeted the family of Ismail Haniyeh, and said in a statement: “The bombing on the Haniyeh family’s home in the Beach Camp, in which ten civilians were killed, including the sister of the head of the Hamas movement, the Mujahid brother Ismail Haniyeh, is an affirmation by the Zionist fascist government of its continued defiance of all international laws.” human norms and values.”

The statement added that Israel deliberately “targets innocent civilians and commits the most heinous massacres against them, after it bombed the Abdel Fattah Hammoud School in the Al-Daraj neighborhood, and targeted the Nasr family home in Al-Maghazi camp and the Asma School affiliated with UNRWA in Al-Shati camp.”

The Israeli army did not immediately confirm the attack, but told AFP that it was “aware of the reports but cannot confirm them.”

The Civil Defense Service in Gaza said that its crews recovered 12 bodies, most of them children and women, following an aerial bombardment of a school housing displaced persons on Jaffa Street in central Gaza City.

The Civil Defense also reported that its teams recovered the bodies of at least five other dead people, including children, after the bombing of a second school housing displaced people in the Al-Shati area, west of Gaza City.

In the same context, five Palestinians were killed in an Israeli air strike that targeted a residential building in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.

A UN-backed assessment concluded Tuesday that about half a million people are suffering from “catastrophic” hunger in Gaza.

While the warnings issued in March of an imminent famine in the northern Palestinian Strip did not materialize, the “Integrated Interim Classification for Food Security” reported that 495,000 people, or about 22 percent of the population of Gaza according to the United Nations, are still suffering from “ Catastrophic levels of acute food insecurity.

For its part, the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip said that it suffers from an acute shortage of medicines and medical supplies necessary to continue providing the necessary services to save the lives of the sick and injured, noting that its stock of these supplies has become non-existent or is about to run out.

The Ministry confirmed that it is facing a shortage of medical drugs for reception, emergency, anesthesia, and intensive care services, as well as medications for oncology patients who were unable to leave the Gaza Strip, and efforts to care for them were limited to what is known as “palliative treatment” only.

According to the Ministry, the crisis also affected dialysis patients, especially children, threatening the lives of nearly a thousand of these patients.

For his part, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that Israel remains committed to its proposal for a ceasefire and the release of hostages held in Gaza.

Netanyahu said in a speech before the Israeli Knesset: “We are committed to the Israeli proposal that was welcomed by US President Biden. Our position has not changed.”

Netanyahu also added, saying: “There is a second matter, which does not contradict the first, which is that we will not end the war before eliminating Hamas, and before we return the residents of the southern and northern regions to their homes safely.”

Khalil Al-Hayya, deputy head of the Hamas movement in Gaza, said: “We are a people on our land and a resistance that defends its people. The occupation declares that it is achieving its goals. Let it do and say whatever it wants, while the field believes and lies.”

He added during an interview with Al Jazeera satellite channel on Monday, in response to a question about the Israeli army’s statements about dismantling the Hamas battalion, “The enemy wants to convince himself that it is over, so he should do so and leave (the Gaza Strip).”

Meanwhile, the Hebrew website Walla reported, citing an Israeli official as saying that the Israeli government passed messages to Hamas via Qatar and Egypt after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech that it “remains committed to its proposal.”

The website stated that Israel passed the mediators a video clip of Netanyahu reiterating his commitment to the Biden initiative and requested that it be transferred to Hamas.

In a related context, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken stressed to Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, who is currently visiting Washington, the need for Israel to urgently develop a strong plan for the post-war phase in Gaza and ensure that tensions do not escalate with the Hezbollah group on Israel’s northern border.

A US State Department statement said after the two ministers’ meeting on Monday: “(Blinken) briefed Secretary Gallant on ongoing diplomatic efforts to strengthen security, governance, and reconstruction in Gaza during the post-conflict period and stressed the importance of this work to Israel’s security.”

Washington has repeatedly urged Israel to develop a realistic plan to govern Gaza after the war and warned that its absence could lead to chaos and lawlessness as well as the return of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).

The Palestinians say that “only ending the Israeli occupation and establishing a Palestinian state will achieve peace.”

The State Department also said in its statement that Blinken “also stressed the importance of avoiding further escalation in the conflict and reaching a diplomatic solution that allows Israeli and Lebanese families to return to their homes.”