Gaza – Hamas said Wednesday that an Israeli air strike killed the wife and child of its Gaza military chief, as a temporary ceasefire went up in smoke and Cairo truce talks froze.
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“The wife of the great leader was martyred with his daughter,” in a strike Tuesday night, Hamas’s exiled deputy leader Mussa Abu Marzuk wrote on Facebook while saying nothing about the fate of Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades commander Mohammed Deif himself.
The Israeli military said it hit “more than 25 targets” in Gaza Tuesday but would not elaborate.
Tuesday’s deaths of the woman and a two-year-old girl were the first as a result of Israeli air raids in Gaza since August 10.
More than a month of fighting between Israel and Hamas has killed at least 2,020 Palestinians and 67 on the Israeli side since July 8.
Hamas’s armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, said Israel had “opened the gates of hell on itself” by the killings and warned that the Jewish state would “pay the price for its crimes.”
Another eight people were hurt in earlier air raids across the strip, the emergency services said.
A 24-hour truce due to last until midnight (2100 GMT) collapsed in late Tuesday afternoon, with each side blaming the other
The al-Qassam Brigades said in a statement that it fired 34 rockets into Israel throughout Tuesday, hitting Tel Aviv and the southern city of Beersheva.
An Israeli military statement put the number fired at “about 50” but reported no casualties.
“A rocket hit an open area in the Tel Aviv metropolitan area,” it said and confirmed that two rockets landed near Beersheva, which is home to around 200,000 Israelis.
Air raid sirens were also heard in Jerusalem, with Hamas claiming a rocket attack on the city.
Police said it appeared that a rocket fell on empty ground in the occupied West Bank, outside Jerusalem.
For Hamas it’s a win win situation with absolutely nothing to lose and each life of their own lost is martyrdom and a scored and sacred victory to say the least!
This is their indoctrination from the crib so why not fight with their lives when they actually believe death is life! So it’s no wonder or big deal they broke the ceasefire as that would put an end to international sympathy and millions of dollars of donations which go to the pockets of the hamas leadership to “rebuild”!
Tzaddik probably told his family to hang out upstairs while he went down to the bomb shelter
Its time to shut their mouths for good
It would have been better if they had killed him and not them, but still you have to be impressed with the targeting. Even when I was a soldier, we had no ability to be exact. I am impressed.
You think this animal cares about a wife and kids; he is only interested in getting something from them
I think he is dead.