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Senior Hamas Official in Critical Condition after Being Shot

Senior Hamas official Imad al-Alami. (AFP)
Senior Hamas official Imad al-Alami. (AFP)
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Senior Hamas Official in Critical Condition after Being Shot

Senior Hamas official Imad al-Alami. (AFP)
Senior Hamas official Imad al-Alami. (AFP)

Senior Hamas official Imad al-Alami was in critical condition on Tuesday after accidentally shooting himself in the head while he was inspecting his weapon at his Gaza home, said a Palestinian medical source.

Alami has since been transferred to a Gaza hospital for treatment.

Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum confirmed his injury, saying that he was in critical condition.

The 62-year-old Alami is a former member of Hamas' policy-making politburo and remains a top official.

Israel exiled Alami from Gaza in 1994. He spent most of his time in Syria before returning in 2012, after Hamas abandoned its longtime base in Damascus.

After the 2014 war between Hamas and Israel, Alami traveled to Turkey for treatment for what Hamas said was an injury during the war. There were no details on how he was injured and lost a leg.

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Israeli Fire Kills 12 People in Gaza, Medics Say

A plume of smoke rises during an Israeli strike on Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on June 13, 2025. (AFP)
A plume of smoke rises during an Israeli strike on Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on June 13, 2025. (AFP)
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Israeli Fire Kills 12 People in Gaza, Medics Say

A plume of smoke rises during an Israeli strike on Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on June 13, 2025. (AFP)
A plume of smoke rises during an Israeli strike on Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on June 13, 2025. (AFP)

Israeli fire and airstrikes killed at least 12 Palestinians on Sunday across the enclave, local health authorities said, at least five of them near two aid sites operated by the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).

Medics at Al-Awda Hospital in the central Gaza Strip said at least three people were killed and dozens wounded by Israeli fire as they tried to approach a GHF site near the Netzarim corridor. Two others were killed en route to another aid site in Rafah in the south.

An airstrike killed seven other people in Beit Lahia town north of the enclave, medics said. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military.

The GHF began distributing food packages in Gaza at the end of May after Israel partially lifted a near three-month total blockade. Scores of Palestinians have been killed in near-daily mass shootings trying to reach the food.

The United Nations rejects the Israeli-backed new distribution system as inadequate, dangerous, and a violation of humanitarian impartiality principles.