Three sons of Hamas leader, Ismail Haniyeh, were killed today in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, relatives and official Hamas media said, with Haniyeh accusing Israel of acting in “the spirit of revenge and murder.”
Haniyeh confirmed the deaths Wednesday in an interview with the Al Jazeera satellite channel, saying his sons “were martyred on the road to liberating Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque.”
There was no immediate comment from the Israeli army.
“The criminal enemy is driven by the spirit of revenge and murder and does not value any standards or laws,” he said in the phone interview.
Ismail Haniyeh lives in exile in Qatar, where Al Jazeera is based.
He said the killings would not pressure Hamas into softening its positions. The two sides have been involved in months of cease-fire talks.
AP