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Hamas official says 50 members killed this week on Gaza border

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AFP Gaza City
Last Updated : May 16 2018 | 9:50 PM IST

A senior member of Gaza's rulers Hamas said today that most of the 62 Palestinians killed by Israeli fire during border protests and clashes this week were members of the Islamist group.

Salah Bardawil did not give further details about whether they were members of the group's armed or political wing, or what they were doing at the time they were killed.

"Fifty of the martyrs were Hamas and 12 from the people," he told a Palestinian television show.

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First Published: May 16 2018 | 9:50 PM IST

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