BREAKING: ISRAELI STRIKE KILLS FORMER PALESTINIAN MINISTER

December 31, 2023

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According to the official Palestinian news agency and the Hamas health ministry, a former minister of the Palestinian Authority was murdered on Sunday in an Israeli hit on his residence in the Gaza Strip.

According to the ministry and Wafa news agency, Youssef Salama, 68, a former minister of religious affairs in the Palestinian Authority, was murdered in an attack on the Al-Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Known for being loyal to Mahmud Abbas’s party, Fatah, the president of the Palestinian Authority, Salama held the position of minister from February 2005 until March 2006.

In Jerusalem’s Old City, he was also a preacher at the Al-Aqsa mosque.

There was no immediate comment on his killing from the Israeli army.

Israel launched a relentless military campaign against Hamas in the Gaza Strip after the Palestinian militants carried out an unprecedented attack on southern Israel on October 7.

The militants’ attack left about 1,140 people dead, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on Israeli figures.

Israel’s ongoing Gaza offensive has killed more than 21,800 people, mostly women and children, according to the health ministry in Hamas-ruled Gaza.

AFP