[News] Hamas defiant after Israeli air strike kills another high profile figure in Gaza

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  Hamas defiant after Israeli air strike kills another high profile
  figure in Gaza

By MEE staff
March 27, 2025
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Smoke rises from a building that was hit by Israeli bombardment in the 
Nuseirat camp for Palestinian refugees in the central Gaza Strip on 25 
March 2025 (AFP/Eyad Baba)

An Israeli <https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel> air strike 
has killed Abdel Latif al-Qanoua, a spokesperson for Hamas, in northern 
Gaza.

He was killed when his tent was targeted in Jabalia refugee camp at dawn 
on Thursday, Al-Aqsa television reported. Several others were wounded in 
the attack.

The Palestinian <https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel>movement 
confirmed the death and said that the attack would only strengthen its 
resistance.

"The occupation's targeting of the movement's leaders and spokespeople 
will not break our will, but will only increase our determination to 
continue on the path of liberation," it said.

Qanoua is the latest high profile Hamas figure to be killed since Israel 
resumed the war last week, in what appears to be a targeted 
assassination campaign.

Earlier this week, Israel killed senior Hamas figures Salah al-Bardaweel 
and Ismail Barhoum.

Both were members of Hamas' 20-member politburo. According to Hamas 
sources cited by Reuters, 11 members of the decision-making body have 
been killed by Israel since the war began in October 2023.

At least 855 people have been killed, over half of whom are children and 
women, since Israel broke the ceasefire last week.


      Civilians targeted

Israel’s relentless bombardment of Gaza killed at least 20 Palestinians 
<https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine> overnight and into 
the morning on Thursday, with many more wounded, according to Al Jazeera.

Among the dead were at least two people who succumbed to their injuries 
after Israeli air strikes targeted tents sheltering displaced families 
in az-Zawayda, a town in central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah governorate.

A Palestinian was also killed by injuries sustained in an Israeli air 
strike on a house in the Shujaiya neighbourhood, east of Gaza City.

The overall death toll from Israel’s war on Gaza has now reached 50,208, 
with 113,910 wounded since 7 October 2023.

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The number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces has averaged 103 per 
day since the war resumed last week, in addition to 223 injuries per 
day, according to the Geneva-based Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor.

In a scathing statement, the group accused Israel of deliberately 
targeting civilians, including those sheltering in tents and the rubble 
of their homes.

"Without any military justification, the Israeli occupation army has 
committed the crime of targeting homes - or what is left of them - every 
day, including targeting tents where civilians have sought safety 
following almost 18 months of genocide," it said.

"This is a clear component of a systematic Israeli policy that aims to 
kill Palestinians, ruin their lives, and impose a horrific reality that 
makes it impossible to survive."

Elsewhere in Gaza, the Palestinian Red Crescent said it still has had no 
contact with nine of its crew members after Israeli forces targeted them 
in Rafah five days ago.

The workers were on their way to treat wounded people in Tel al-Sultan, 
where around 50,000 Palestinians were encircled by Israeli troops 
<https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-troops-surround-rafah-tel-al-sultan-wounded-bleeding-to-death> 
earlier this week.


      Soldiers refusing call-up

Haaretz reported that Israel's military is grappling with a growing 
crisis in its reserves as it prepares to intensify operations in Gaza.

Tens of thousands of reservists are set to be called up, but a rising 
number are refusing to serve, citing exhaustion, frustration with 
government policies, and uncertainty over the war’s objectives.

A senior reservist commander told Haaretz that brigade and battalion 
leaders are dealing with numerous cases of troops refusing to report, 
with many blaming the government’s failure to secure the release of 
Israeli captives.

Others are protesting against plans to exempt ultra-Orthodox men from 
military service and concerns over judicial reforms.

Military officials insist the reserves remain operationally capable, but 
cracks in morale are becoming harder to ignore.

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