An Israeli airstrike on the northern Gaza Strip killed Abdel Latif al-Qanoua, a spokesman for the Palestinian Hamas movement, on Thursday, Reuters reported, citing the movement-controlled Al-Aqsa television channel.
According to Al Jazeera, Abdel Latif al-Qanoua was in a tent in the town of Jabalia when it was hit by an Israeli air strike. The Palestinian Quds News Network published a photo of the Hamas spokesman’s body.
At least 26 people were killed in Israel’s March 26 attack on the northern Gaza Strip, according to Al Jazeera. The publication notes that the number of casualties could rise as the condition of some of the victims taken to hospitals is extremely serious.
The Jerusalem Post reports that Abdel Latif al-Qanoua was one of the most prominent representatives of Hamas. During the active fighting since October 2023, he avoided media appearances but since the ceasefire came into effect in January 2025, he has given several interviews to Arab news channels.
Earlier, another member of Hamas’ political bureau, Ismail Barhoum, was the victim of an Israeli strike on Nasser Hospital in the Gaza Strip town of Khan Younis.
At least 10 more Palestinians were killed in fresh Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip on Thursday amid a deadly offensive on the enclave, medics said. Israeli warplanes struck a house in the al-Saftawi neighbourhood, north of Gaza City, killing seven people, a medical source said.
One Palestinian was killed in another airstrike on a house near Al-Quds University in Gaza City, he added.
Israeli fighter jets also shelled a tent sheltering displaced people, killing one person and wounding several others in al-Mawasi in the southern town of Khan Younis, another medical source said.
Witnesses said Israeli troops also shelled the eastern neighbourhoods of Gaza City and Khan Younis, the Bureij and Nuseirat refugee camps in central Gaza, and Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya in the north of the enclave.
The Israeli army launched a surprise air campaign in the Gaza Strip on March 18, killing 830 people, wounding some 1,800 and violating a ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas that was concluded in January.
The UN estimates that some 124,000 Palestinians have been displaced again since Israel resumed its attacks on Gaza. More than 50,100 Palestinians have been killed, mostly women and children, and more than 113,700 injured in the brutal Israeli offensive on Gaza since October 2023.
Last November, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war against the enclave.
