File photo
Jerusalem:
Israeli prosecutors on Sunday indicted the sister of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on charges of sedition and showing solidarity with a terrorist group after she reportedly praised the October 7 Hamas attack that sparked the six-month war in Gaza.
Sabah al-Salem Haniyeh, 57, lives in the southern Israeli city of Tel Sheva. Her brother is based in Qatar, as are other officials of Hamas, the Islamist group that rules the Gaza Strip.
Haniyeh has been in custody since her arrest on April 1, Israel's Justice Ministry said. There was no immediate comment from her attorney.
According to the indictment, in the days after the Hamas massacre in southern Israel on October 7, Haniyeh sent messages to dozens of contacts, including her brother, praising the cross-border attack and calling for further “carnage.”
One of her messages mentioned in the indictment includes the line: “Oh God, count them and kill them and leave none of them behind, oh God.”
Hamas killed some 1,200 Israelis and foreigners in the Oct. 7 attack, sparking the war in which more than 34,000 Palestinians have been killed, according to Gaza's health authority.
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
