{"id":54783,"date":"2025-03-23T09:44:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T09:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/?p=54783"},"modified":"2025-03-23T09:44:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T09:44:00","slug":"air-strike-kills-hamas-official-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/?p=54783","title":{"rendered":"Air strike kills Hamas official in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">An Israeli air strike in the southern city of Khan Younis in Gaza has killed top Hamas political leader Salah al-Bardaweel, a Hamas official told the BBC early on Sunday.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">Locals say the air strike killed both Bardaweel, a member of the group&#8217;s political office, and his wife.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">Israeli officials had no immediate comment.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">Israel&#8217;s military<!-- --><b id=\"\" class=\"sc-7dcfb11b-0 kVRnKf\"> <!-- --><\/b>resumed significant strikes on Gaza on Tuesday, blaming Hamas, abandoning a ceasefire agreement that began on<!-- --><b id=\"\" class=\"sc-7dcfb11b-0 kVRnKf\"> <!-- --><\/b>19 January and ended<!-- --><b id=\"\" class=\"sc-7dcfb11b-0 kVRnKf\"> <!-- --><\/b>almost two months of calm.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">Hamas rejected the Israeli accusations and, in turn, accused Israel of violating the ceasefire agreement that was signed and brokered by Qatar, Egypt and the US.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">An official in the Hamas-run health ministry said 32 Palestinians had been killed over the past 24 hours across various parts of the Gaza Strip.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">The Israeli military launched a campaign to destroy Hamas in response to an unprecedented cross-border attack on 7 October 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 were taken hostage.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">More than 49,500 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since then, the Hamas-run health ministry says, and there is large-scale destruction to homes and infrastructure in the Strip.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cq5zxe5l58go\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Israeli air strike in the southern city of Khan Younis in Gaza has killed top&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[188,190,243,192,387,189],"class_list":["post-54783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-air","tag-gaza","tag-hamas","tag-kills","tag-official","tag-strike"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.0 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - 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