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Palestinian Marwan Al-Hams, director of the Department of Campaign Hospitals in Gaza, reacts while inspecting damage inside the Nasser Hospital’s surgical building, a day after he was the target of Israeli attacks in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza.
Ismail Barhum was a political leader and appointed to head the Gaza’s government. Attack killed at least four other people. This weekend, the mark of the 50,000 Palestinians was exceeded since October 2023.
Israel’s Defense Forces (IDF) and Israelite Internal Security Services (Shin Bet) confirmed the death of Ismail BarhumHamas Member appointed to head the Gaza Strip government.
Barhum belonged to the Executive Committee of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and was designated by the Palestinian radical group to succeed the deceased Isam al-Dalis as head of the Gaza Strip government, which has been protected since 2007.
Barhum was responsible for the portfolio of institutions and finances. The Israeli authorities also consider it a “Central Figure” of the political apparatus of the organization and the person responsible for the decisions against the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) in the Gaza Strip. As Hamas Finance Chief, he was responsible for sending funds to the organization’s military wing, Brigades Ezzeldin Al-Qassam, to “plan and execute terrorist conspiracies against the State of Israel,” said Israelites military personnel in a social networking publication.
“These funds financed the organization’s survival in the Gaza Strip and were used for terrorist activities and the purchase of weapons, which were a threat to Israel state citizens,” Israeli military authorities said, warning that they will continue to act against Hamas and “eliminate any threat to citizens” in the country.
The announcement of the Israelite authorities confirms the information provided the day before by the Gaza government, which indicated that Barhum had died following a Israeli Army attack on the Nasser Hospital Surgery Buildingin Khan Yunis, where the head of the Executive of the Enclave recovered from injuries suffered in a previous attack.
Nasser Hospital was bombarded by Israel and is still on fire. At least four other people died in the attack, in addition to the political leader of the Islamite group. The attack followed wide intelligence and used accurate ammunition to minimize the damage on site.
The moment of impact at the Nasser Hospital was also caught live on Al Jazeera.
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The Israelite army stressed the fact that Barhum meets the hospital as “another example of how the terrorist organization Hamas systematically violates international law” by seizing civil infrastructure and using the population as a “human shield for their operations.”
Barhum was not the only
Israel, for its part, confirmed a “attack directed at a” key terrorist “of the organization” after an “exhaustive information process” without giving more details.
On Sunday, Hamas confirmed the death of another high employee of the political office in Gaza, Wrong Al-Bardawil“High Hamas Political Office that led the movement’s strategic and military plan,” an Israeli air strike on Saturday.
Al-Bardawil, 65, was killed along with his wife in a field in Al-Mawasi near Khan Yunis. Hamas’ high employee will have joined the Palestinian Islamite group when he was founded in 1987, serving as a spokesman in Khan Yunis before climbing the hierarchy until he was elected to the political office in 2021.
Hamas describes that Al-Bardawil denounced security cooperation between Palestinian and Israel authority and supported armed struggle against Israel. He was arrested by Israel in 1993 and interrogated for 70 days in arrests in Gaza and Ashkelon in southern Israel, the radical group reported. He has also been arrested several times by the Palestinian authority security forces.
This Sunday, the number of Palestinians killed since October 2023 has exceeded the mark of 50 milaccording to the Ministry of Health of Gaza.
