INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Three sons of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh were killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, the Palestinian Islamist group
and Haniyeh&s family said.The Israeli military confirmed carrying out the attack, describing the three sons as operatives in the Hamas armed
wing, Reuters reported.The three sons & Hazem, Amir and Mohammad & were killed when the car they were driving in was bombed in Gaza&s
Al-Shati camp, Hamas said
Four of Haniyeh&s grandchildren, three girls and a boy, were also killed in the attack, Hamas said.Asked about the four grandchildren killed
in the airstrike, the Israeli military said there was &no information on that right now.&Haniyeh, based abroad in Qatar, has been the
tough-talking face of Hamas& international diplomacy as war with Israel has raged on in Gaza, where his family home was destroyed in an
Israeli airstrike back in November.&The blood of my sons is not dearer than the blood of our people,& Haniyeh, 61, who has 13 sons and
daughters according to Hamas sources, told pan-Arab Al Jazeera TV.The three sons and four grandchildren were making family visits during the
first day of Eid al-Fitr in Shati, their home refugee camp in Gaza City, according to relatives.Hamas said on Tuesday it was studying an
Israeli ceasefire proposal in the more than six-month-old Gaza war but that it was &intransigent& and met none of the Palestinian
demands.&Our demands are clear and specific and we will not make concessions on them
The enemy will be delusional if it thinks that targeting my sons, at the climax of the negotiations and before the movement sends its
response, will push Hamas to change its position,& Haniyeh said.In the seventh month of a war in which Israel&s air and ground offensive has
devastated Gaza, Hamas wants an end to Israeli military operations and a withdrawal from the enclave, and permission for displaced
Palestinians to return home, Reuters reported.Haniyeh&s eldest son confirmed in a Facebook post that his three brothers were killed
&Thanks to God who honoured us by the martyrdom of my brothers, Hazem, Amir and Mohammad and their children,& wrote Abdel-Salam Haniyeh.The
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