Israel bombed the home of a Hamas leader in Gaza on May 16, hours before a meeting of the U.N. Security Council on the Israeli-Palestinian crisis. But the leader’s whereabouts are unknown.
The fate of Hamas leader Yahya Sinouar is not known. The home of Yahya Sinouar and his brother (a terror militant) was attacked,” the Israeli army tweeted, adding that it had also posted a video showing a house shattered in a cloud of dust.
Witnesses confirmed to AFP that the target of the attack was none other than the home of Yahya Shinur. He was re-elected as chairman of Hamas’ political bureau in Gaza in March this year. The Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, a Palestinian enclave of 2 million people, has been blockaded by Israel for more than a decade.
Israel also bombed a 13-story office building housing Al Jazeera and the Associated Press in Gaza yesterday, notifying the building’s owner in advance that no one was killed or injured, but prompting a wave of international media condemnation.
The Israeli military justified the bombing by claiming that the building housed Hamas “military intelligence entities” and accused Hamas of using civilians as “human shields” for itself.
Earlier yesterday, a three-story building in the Shati refugee camp collapsed after an Israeli bombing in central Gaza, killing a family of 10 people, including eight children. Only a 5-month-old baby and father survived.
Israel also bombed a network of Gaza tunnels yesterday in an attempt to cut off the movement of Islamic fighters and leaders. But Gaza’s Islamist forces continued to fire a barrage of rockets into southern Israel. The Israeli army says some of the rockets fired by Palestinians do not fly far and fall into Gaza.
AFP reported today from Gaza that nearly 170 people, mostly Palestinians, have been killed since a new conflict between Israel and Palestinian militant groups began in Gaza on May 10.
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