DRAMATIC footage captured the moment armed police arrested the sister of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh for “praising the October 7 massacre”.
Sabah al-Salem Haniyeh, 57, was captured at her home in southern Israel after authorities found dozens of chilling text messages she allegedly sent to her contacts supporting the terrorist attack, and even called for more “killings” .
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Body camera footage taken by police showed two unmarked vans filled with Israeli officers rushing towards their home in Tel Shiva.
Armed police can be seen storming the building before arresting Sabah inside a room.
Haniyeh’s sister calmly surrendered to police while she was handcuffed.
Sabah was arrested on April 1 in a joint raid with the Shin Bet and has been in police custody since then, Israel’s Justice Ministry said.
She has been accused of incitement and showing solidarity with a terrorist group after she allegedly applauded the terrorist attack on Israel on October 7 that sparked the bloody war in Gaza.
The indictment suggests Sabah sent messages to dozens of contacts, including his brother Ismail Haniyeh, praising the massacre and calling for more “killings.”
One of his messages mentioned in the indictment includes: “O God, count them and kill them and leave none, O God.”
Police said that during the raid they also found evidence, including secret documents, linking her to “serious security crimes.” Israel Times reports.
Sabah is the sister of Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of Hamas.
The terrorist leader, 61, has refuge in Qatar and lives in a multi-million dollar penthouse.
Haniyeh has been the tough face of Hamas’s international diplomacy, which soured on Israel inside Gaza, where his family’s home was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in November.
Just a few days ago, she was told that her three children and four grandchildren had reportedly been killed in an Israeli airstrike.
Heartbreaking footage captured the terrorist boss nervously playing with his hands and looking at the ground as he was told the news before carrying on with his day as usual.
The Hamas demon appears in shock and disbelief as he is slowly led out of the room, barely saying a word.
Online reports say she prayed to God for mercy and acceptance of her children in the clip before leaving.
It is believed that he then continued his visit to the hospital to see injured Gazans as usual.
It comes as officials fear that only 40 of the remaining 133 Israeli hostages captured by Hamas on October 7 are alive.
Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security agency, says it is much easier to gather information on the hostage situation due to Israel’s growing presence in Gaza.
A source is reported to have told the Daily Mail: “(Intelligence) is much easier to access than before October 7, when we had limited access to Gaza and didn’t have many sources.
“The situation is completely different because we are there.”
These fears are due, in part, to Hamas’s indications that it cannot release 40 hostages, who are sick and elderly women or men.
How hostages could become “bargaining currency”
Middle East analyst Dr Anahita Motazed Rad told The Sun how Iran’s opportunist regime could tell Hamas to kill the hostages.
Shortly after the October 7 attacks, an Israeli media outlet Haaretz He warned that the hostages would be at greater risk if Iran and Hezbollah became more actively involved in the conflict.
He suggested the hostages would become “pawns in a regional power game.”
Dr. Rad added: “The Iranian regime is the kind of regime that is always negotiating.”
The regime is already at its “weakest point,” he explains, and many Iranians are already pushing for a change of government.
But as Iran becomes increasingly embroiled in conflict, and the country currently faces global condemnation for its attack on Israel, it is believed that Iran will struggle to gain influence.
Part of its approach may include turning to the Hamas proxy army to use remaining hostages in its conflict with Israel.
Dr Rad told The Sun: “The Iranian regime is a kind of opportunistic regime.
“They see every opportunity for their survival and even the escalation of their status in the region and their influence in the region within the chaos.”
On April 18, Israel shared a horrifying video that appeared to show Yarden Bibas, the father of 10-month-old Kfir Bibas, being beaten by a mob.
The video shows angry men surrounding Yarden, who is sitting between two men on a motorcycle.
The two men sitting on the bike with Yarden, and a couple of others standing next to him, try unsuccessfully to protect him from the attack.
The six-month war between Israel and Hamas was sparked by the terrorist group’s Oct. 7 attacks that killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians.
The militants also took about 250 hostages, of whom Israel estimates 129 remain trapped in Gaza or are dead.
Israel responded to the terrorist atrocity with one of the deadliest and most destructive military attacks in recent history, killing nearly 34,000 Palestinians, according to Hamas-led Gaza health officials.
The country has faced growing global opposition to the relentless fighting, which the United Nations and aid agencies have warned has pushed the north to the brink of famine.
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