VoL Desk, April 11: An Israeli air strike on Gaza city killed three sons of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas-affiliated news agency Shehab said on Wednesday.

Palestinian media said that the strike targeted a car that the three brothers, Hazem, Amir and Mohammed, were driving in the Beach refugee camp. Al Jazeera reported that three of Haniyeh’s grandchildren were also killed in the attack.

Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh on Wednesday praised the “martyrdom” of his three sons and three grandchildren on Wednesday after they were killed in an Israeli strike.

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“All our people and all the families of Gaza’s residents have paid a heavy price with the blood of their children, and I am one of them,” Haniyeh told Al Jazeera.

Haniyeh, who is based in Doha, Qatar, said the killing of his sons and grandchildren would not impact Hamas’s position in ceasefire talks.

A fourth grandchild of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh has died as a result of an Israeli strike on his family in Gaza, according to Hamas.

The death toll for Haniyeh’s family now stands at seven people, including three sons whom an Israeli military spokesperson confirmed as being Amir, Hazem and Mohammad, and four of the 62-year-old Hamas leader’s grandchildren, identified by Hamas as Mona, Amal, Khaled and Razan.