Haniyeh said he heard the news as he was visiting wounded Palestinians who had been taken for treatment to the Qatari capital, Doha, which is where the Hamas leader lives.
"The enemy will be delusional if it thinks that targeting my sons, at the climax of the [ceasefire] negotiations and before the movement sends its response, will push Hamas to change its position," he told Al Jazeera.
According to reports, the Haniyeh family members were killed in a vehicle in the Al Shati refugee camp in the northern Gaza strip, an area that has been under IDF control for several months.
Haniyeh, who is chairman of the Hamas’ political bureau, lives in Qatar and was seen reacting to the news in a brief clip shared by Shehab on X.
In October, 14 members of Haniyeh’s family were reportedly killed during an Israeli airstrike.
