Hamas leader's home is hit in airstrike as Israel presses its attacks and U.S. envoy seeks aid route

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By NAJIB JOBAIN, SAMY MAGDY and DAVID RISING
Updated 6:42 AM CDT, November 4, 2023

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel’s military hit the family home of the exiled leader of Hamas on the outskirts of Gaza City with an airstrike Saturday and pressed ahead with attacks across in the besieged enclave where a humanitarian crisis is rapidly worsening.

With food, water and the fuel needed for generators that power hospitals and other facilities running out, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged an immediate cease-fire to allow aid in.

“The humanitarian situation in Gaza is horrific,” Guterres said late Friday in an unusually blunt statement. “An entire population is traumatized, nowhere is safe.”

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has been in the region since Friday trying to find ways to ease the plight of the civilians caught in the fighting and was meeting with Arab foreign ministers on Saturday. His mission is complicated by Israel’s insistence there can be no temporary cease-fire until all hostages held by Hamas are released.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-11-4-2023-baf5a858e29aa6a4b8100e3afc5afdf2

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FULL story & video at link.

[jimfields33]

1. Where's the aid that arrived on trucks. They've had many trucks daily get through to Gaza.

Where is it?

[Prairie Gates]

2. Wait, they're just hitting the Hamas leader's home NOW?

They've been bombing for damn near a month.

[padah513]

3. I thought the same thing

Unless their intelligence just uncovered the location, that place should have been one of the first places to go.

[Lonestarblue]

5. The Hamas leader is in exile. He isn't even there, so the purpose was to kill any family.

That would include women, children, and elderly relatives. So much for not targeting civilians.

[LauraInLA]

6. His home may be used as a headquarters, ammo supply, we don't know.

[Beastly Boy]

11. What kind of a coward would leave his family in a war zone and run off to Qatar?

[jvill]

15. No casualties were reported...

However, the small base housed underneath the house was also destroyed, which was the target, which you'd know if the AP had reported from non-Hamas sources.

"Also hit was the family home of Hamas’ exiled leader Ismail Haniyeh in the Shati refugee camp on the northern edge of Gaza City, according to the Hamas-run media office in Gaza. It had no immediate details on damage or casualties."

[prodigitalson]

8. did they really think he was kicking back at the crib?

[Sneederbunk]

10. BTW does he have a name?

[LeftInTX]

17. Ismail Haniyeh. His home was bombed in 2014.

Of course, he wasn't home then. He can hide in tunnels.

I seriously doubt that his wife and kids were there in yesterday's blast. He's not stupid. He's worth billions.


Image is from 2014


https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4565603,00.html

[Sneederbunk]

18. Tnx.

[Beastly Boy]

12. The possibility of the hostages being "honored guests" in his house until now, or

the possibility of his house being used for other than residential purposes now and not a month ago are all out of the question, right?

[Prairie Gates]

14. I'm sure those are all possibilities

[PhylliPretzel]

4. The Hamas leader is in Qatar.

Why bomb his family's home as he is not there? Sheer vengeance; does nothing for Israel's "security," just creates more terrorists.
We need to mind these words by Ami Ayalon, a former leader of the Shin Bet security agency, written in his 2020 memoir:
“To kill terrorist leaders without addressing the despair of their supporters is a fool’s errand and produces more frustration, more despair, and more terrorism.”

[LauraInLA]

7. His home may be used to store munitions or house militants.

We don’t know, but the IDF/Shin Bet does.

[prodigitalson]

9. yeah, Hamas is really gonna hate Israel now

[Beastly Boy]

13. Because the terrorist leader's house being used for terrorist purposes is

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absolutely out of the question, right?

[jvill]

16. there was a small base underneath

I honestly don't understand why people are so blindly taking the word of the Hamas rapists and child murders. Everybody knows Hamas hides assets in "sensitive" locations, right?

Did we not learn after the first "catastrophe" after the Hamas animals rocketed a **Palestinian** hospital and blamed the Israelis..? Lying the whole time... Rinse and repeat. Don't be a sucker.

So.. hrmmm.. why WOULD the military strike an "empty" house (says Hamas)...?