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Earlier, Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh’s sons had been killed in an Israeli strike on Gaza Metropolis. (Picture: Reuters/Consultant)
Israel’s State Lawyer indicts Ismail Haniyeh’s sister for incitement and ties to terror group, amid tensions in Gaza battle aftermath
Israel’s State Lawyer on Sunday indicted the sister of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh on prices of incitement and displaying solidarity with a terror group, after she allegedly praised Hamas’ Oct. 7 assault that sparked the six-month previous struggle in Gaza.
Sabah al-Salem Haniyeh, 57, lives within the southern Israeli city of Tel Sheva. Her brother is predicated in Qatar, as are different officers from Hamas, the Islamist group that guidelines the Gaza Strip.
Haniyeh has been held in custody since her arrest on April 1, Israel’s justice ministry mentioned. There was no instant remark from her lawyer.
Based on the indictment, within the days after Hamas’ Oct. 7 killing spree in southern Israel, Haniyeh despatched messages to dozens of contacts, together with to her brother, praising the cross-border assault and calling for additional “slaughter”.
One among her messages talked about within the indictment contains the road: “Oh God, depend them and kill them and don’t go away any of them, Oh God.”
Hamas killed some 1,200 Israelis and foreigners within the Oct. 7 assault, sparking the struggle, wherein Gaza’s well being authority says greater than 34,000 Palestinians have been killed.
