An Israeli air strike on Sunday killed a member of Hamas’ political bureau as he underwent treatment in hospital, a source in the Islamist movement said, after Israel confirmed it targeted “a key terrorist”.
“The Israeli army assassinated Hamas political bureau member Ismail Barhoum,” the Hamas source said, requesting anonymity to speak more freely.
“Warplanes bombed the operating room at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, where Barhoum was receiving treatment after sustaining critical injuries in an air strike targeting his home in Khan Younis at dawn last Tuesday.”
Four others were killed in the attack on the hospital, Hamas said.
Agence France-Presse photos showed the building of about four storeys largely undamaged except for fire blazing in one section off a stairwell.
Barhoum is the fourth member of Hamas’s political bureau killed since last Tuesday when Israel resumed air strikes in the territory after an impasse over continuing a ceasefire.
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