Hamas chief claims that an Israeli airstrike killed his 3 sons...
As the battle in the Palestinian territory raged despite ongoing peace discussions in Cairo, the head of Hamas announced on wednesday that israel had killed three of his sons in an air strike in Gaza. In an interview with Al Jazeera, Ismail Haniyeh, who is living in Qatar, said that the strike had killed "some of" his grandkids and his three sons. The strike occurred when negotiations for a cease-fire and a deal to free the hostages were taking a long time without showing any signs of progress. israel refrained from commenting on the attack right away. israel has been under increasing pressure from the US to accept a ceasefire, permit more humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, and give up its preparations to raid the southern city of Rafah.
In an interview that was aired on Tuesday, US President Joe Biden called Israel's handling of the conflict a "mistake". In the midst of the six-month war's devastation, Gazans came together to worship on wednesday, the first day of the Eid al-Fitr holiday, which signifies the conclusion of the Muslim month of Ramadan. Tens of thousands more descended upon the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, where a worshipper named Rawan Abd, a nurse, declared, "It's the saddest Eid ever... you could see the sadness on people's faces." Meanwhile, a day after Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to continue the effort to destroy Hamas and free the hostages, Israeli soldiers continued their combat operations and airstrikes in Gaza.
