Israeli Airstrike Claims Life of First Woman Elected to HAMAS Political Bureau

Media related to HAMAS in Gaza reports that Jameela al-Shanti has been killed in an Israeli airstrike. She was the widow of HAMAS co-founder Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi and the first woman elected to the organization's Political Bureau. Details regarding the exact location of the airstrike have not been disclosed, but it is said to have occurred at dawn, according to timesofisrael.com.

Al-Shanti became the first woman elected to HAMAS's Political Bureau, its highest decision-making body, in 2021. Meanwhile, HAMAS co-founder Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi was killed in an Israeli airstrike in 2004.