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- Haniyeh’s house was used as a terrorist infrastructure
- Haniyeh came into the limelight in the late 1990s
- Haniyeh was elected as the leader of Hamas in 2017
New Delhi:
Israeli troops have attacked the home of Ismail Haniyeh, the top leader of Hamas, in Gaza. The Israel Defense Forces shared a video of a house being bombed by a fighter plane on Thursday. The army claims that the house belongs to Ismail Haniyeh.
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Ismail Haniyeh is the chief of Hamas’s political bureau, one of the highest-ranking officials in the organization that rules Gaza. Many countries consider him the head of Hamas.
Israel claims that Haniyeh’s home was “used as a terrorist base.” The house was used by senior Hamas leaders as a meeting place to carry out terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians and IDF soldiers.
215 باوغده 162 تكفه الحليه عربية متعوسي كرب ات بيتو شل عيسمعيل حنييه, راش هلشكه مدينيت شل الارغون حترور ڗماس ششیمش کشمیش كهتشتیت ترور وبیون عربی Karmic stimulus Arabic Arabic Harkun >> pic.twitter.com/eCwd4lmrFF
– Israel Defense Forces (@idfonline) November 16, 2023
Hanih was close to Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin
Haniyeh came into the limelight in the late 1990s. Before the cleric was killed in 2004, he was the right-hand man of Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin in Gaza.
After leading Hamas to victory in 2006, he was elected Prime Minister of Palestine. Haniyeh was elected leader of Hamas in 2017 and has largely controlled his group’s political activities from outside Gaza.
Israeli troops also discovered and destroyed a Hamas naval weapons cache today, the IDF said. The cache contained diving gear, explosive devices and weapons.
Israel has vowed to destroy Hamas in retaliation for the October 7 attack. The Hamas attack killed 1,200 Israelis, most of them civilians. Hamas also took about 240 people hostage, including the elderly and young children.
The Hamas-run Health Ministry has claimed that the death toll from Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip has now risen to more than 11,500, including thousands of children. He is demanding a ceasefire.