Hamas official Ismail Barhoum killed in Israeli strike on Gaza hospital, says militant group source
The Hindu
Israeli air strike kills Hamas political bureau member in hospital, escalating tensions in Gaza conflict.
An Israeli air strike on Sunday (March 24, 2025) killed a member of Hamas’s political bureau as he underwent treatment in hospital, a source in the Islamist movement said, after Israel confirmed it targeted “a key terrorist”.
“The Israeli army assassinated Hamas political bureau member Ismail Barhoum,” the Hamas source said, requesting anonymity to speak more freely.
“Warplanes bombed the operating room at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, where Barhoum was receiving treatment after sustaining critical injuries in an air strike targeting his home in Khan Yunis at dawn last Tuesday (March 18, 2025).”
AFP photos showed the building of about four-storeys largely undamaged except for fire blazing in one section off a stairwell.
Barhoum is the fourth member of Hamas’s political bureau killed since last Tuesday (March 18, 2025) when Israel resumed air strikes in the territory after an impasse over continuing a ceasefire.
Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz confirmed in a statement that Barhoum had been targeted in the strike. The Israeli military said it hit the hospital with “precise munitions” following extensive intelligence-gathering.
It said the target was a key member of “the Hamas terrorist organisation who was operating inside the Nasser Hospital compound.”
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