At least 10 members of the family of the political leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, including his sister, have been killed following an Israeli attack this morning on their family residence in the Shati refugee camp, in the north of Gaza City.

It was an attack carried out by an Israeli Apache helicopter, in the that at least 13 people died, of which at least ten were confirmed as members of the Haniyeh family. Likewise, at least 12 people, including several children, have died in a second bombing against a used school as a shelter for forcibly displaced people by Israel’s attacks in central Gaza.

After that, Hamas has condemned “the massacres” by the “fascist Zionist enemy” against the Palestinian people, “including the bombing of the Haniye family home in Shati, in which ten people were killed, including the sister of Hamas chief Ismail Haniye” and other attacks in recent hours in the refugee camp and other parts of the Strip that have left “dozens of martyrs, most of them children and women.”

The Israeli Army, for its part, has indicated that last night attacked two schools in Shati and Daraj Tuffah, that “were being used by Hamas terrorists, some of them involved in the attacks on October 7 and in the holding of hostages,” although he did not refer to the attack on the Haniyeh home.

This is not the first time that Israel has attacked the family home of Ismail Haniyeh, a Hamas political leader who has been living in self-exile in Qatar for years, a house where two of his children supposedly lived and which it already bombed last November. Furthermore, on April 10 three of Haniyeh’s children and several of his grandchildren They were also killed in an Israeli attack on their vehicle while they were visiting their relatives in the Shati camp.

Attacks two UNRWA schools and a refugee camp

Palestinian media point out that the attacks against two UNRWA schools, in Shati and Daraj Tuffah, in the north of Gaza City, from where the at least 16 bodies. Several attacks were also reported inside Gaza City, including one near the Shifa hospital that left at least five dead.

Palestinian sources also reported attacks in Khan Younis and Rafah, in the south of the Strip.; as well as in the Maghazi refugee camp, in the center of the enclave, where at least five members of the same family died.

“The occupation attacked the west of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, with air strikes, artillery bombardments and tank fire,” reported the official Palestinian agency Wafa, after yesterday the Army assured that it is close to defeating to the Hamas brigade in Rafah. Another young Palestinian was killed and several civilians were wounded in another Israeli bombing in Tal Al Sultan, west of Rafah, according to Wafa.