In an announcement, Israel Defense Forces mentioned the Gaza Strip home of Ismail Haniyeh, head of Hamas’ political bureau, was bombed Thursday morning. The IDF launched a video which it mentioned confirmed the explosion and its troops combating within the Gaza Strip.

In a latest growth within the Israel-Hamas conflict, Israeli troops on Thursday, November 16 struck the home of prime Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in Gaza. The Israeli Defence Forces shared a video as we speak of fighter jets bombing a home, which they declare is Ismail Haniyeh’s.

Haniyeh is the pinnacle of Hamas’ political bureau and among the many highest-ranking officers within the organisation that governs Gaza. He is considered the pinnacle of Hamas by a number of international locations.

Israel claims Haniyeh’s home was ‘used as terrorist infrastructure’ and was getting used as a gathering level by senior Hamas leaders to direct terror assaults in opposition to Israeli civilians and IDF troopers.

Haniyeh got here into the limelight within the late Nineties and was the right-hand man to the Hamas founder, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, in Gaza earlier than the cleric was assassinated in 2004. He was elected because the Palestine Prime Minister after main Hamas to victory in 2006.

Israeli troops as we speak additionally positioned and destroyed a Hamas naval forces weapons cache, containing diving gear, explosive gadgets and weapons, the IDF mentioned.

Israel has vowed to eradicate Hamas in retaliation for the assaults of October 7, which killed 1,200 folks, most of them civilians.

Hamas additionally took round 240 folks hostage, amongst them aged folks and younger youngsters. But with the Hamas-run well being ministry claiming the loss of life toll from the offensive has now topped 11,500, together with hundreds of kids, requires a truce are mounting.