14 people die, including a sister of the leader of the political wing of Hamas, in an Israeli bombing in Gaza

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Israel confirms attack, says building in Shati refugee camp “was used by Hamas terrorists”

June 25 (EUROPA PRESS) –

Around 15 people, including one of the sisters of the leader of the political wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), Ismail Haniye, died this Tuesday in a bombing carried out by the Israeli Army against the Shati refugee camp, located in Gaza City, in the north of the Strip.

According to information collected by the Palestinian newspaper ‘Filastin’, linked to the Islamist group, at least fourteen people have died in the bombing, including a sister of Haniye and several of her relatives. Haniye has not yet commented on the reports, nearly two months after Israel killed three of her children and four of her grandchildren in another bombing in Gaza.

The Israeli authorities also charged another of Haniye’s sisters – detained days earlier – with “incitement to terrorism” in April for two messages sent through her WhatsApp account “praising or supporting” the attacks carried out on October 7. by Hamas and other Palestinian factions against Israeli territory.

Likewise, at least twelve people, including several children, have died in a second bombing against a school used as a shelter for people forcibly displaced by Israel’s attacks in central Gaza, in the midst of the offensive launched by the Israeli Army against the enclave. more than eight months ago, after the aforementioned attacks on October 7.

For its part, the Israeli Army has acknowledged its responsibility in the bombing in Shati and has said that it has attacked a building in the camp and another in the Darj Tupa area, also in northern Gaza, which “were used by terrorists.” of the terrorist organization Hamas”. “The terrorists operated from the facilities of a school that the organization used as a shield for its terrorist activities,” he argued.

“The terrorists were involved in planning many terrorist plots against Israel and some participated in holding hostages and participated in the massacre of October 7,” he said in a statement on his website, in which he said that he carried out “inspections from the air” and used “precise weaponry” to “reduce damage to those not involved.”

“The terrorist organization Hamas routinely violates International Law and systematically uses civilian buildings and the civilian population as human shields for its terrorist actions against the State of Israel,” the Israeli Army has concluded, which however does not has not commented on the identities of those killed in the bombing nor has it confirmed whether the sister of the leader of the political arm of the Palestinian Islamist group is among them.