Gaza: Hamas leader’s home targeted by Israeli strike

The Israeli army said it carried out a strike on Sunday (May 16th) on the home of the head of the Hamas political bureau in the Gaza Strip, Yahya Sinouar, without specifying whether he was there. The army “attacked the home of Yahya Sinouar and his brother, a terrorist activist,” wrote the military institution on Twitter, where it posted a video showing a house pulverized in a cloud of dust.

Witnesses nearby confirmed to Agence France-Presse that a strike had taken place on Yahya Sinouar’s home. In March, he was re-elected as head of Hamas’s political bureau in the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian enclave of 2 million inhabitants under the control of the Islamist movement and under Israeli blockade since 2007. Imprisoned for more than twenty years by Israel and released Yahya Sinouar was elected to this post in February 2017 through a prisoner exchange.

Hamas and the Hebrew state have been exchanging deadly gunfire from and towards the Palestinian enclave since Monday.


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