THIS is the chilling moment Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was told his three sons and four grandchildren had been reportedly killed in an Israeli airstrike.

The terror boss can be seen in the harrowing footage nervously playing with his hands and staring down at the floor when told the news before carrying on with his day as usual.

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Haniyeh, 61, who has sanctuary in Qatar and lives in a billionaire penthouse apartment, is the political leader of Hamas.

He announced several of his relatives had been killed in a blast on the Gaza strip.

An IDF statement confirmed that the Israeli air force killed Haniyeh’s sons Hazem, Amir and Mohammed.

The terror chief confirmed the deaths on social media after an announcement on Hamas’ Al-Aqsa TV station.

Haniyeh identified his allegedly slain children as Hazem, Amir and Mohammad.

In an interview with Al Jazeera, he said three of his grandchildren were also killed.

But the latest statement from Hamas said seven members of Haniyeh’s family were killed.

It said three granddaughters and one grandson had died, but didn’t provide their ages.  

Haniyeh claimed his family was targeted while driving in a car near the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City.

Footage shows a suited up Haniyeh inside a hospital room in Qatar surrounded by several men when one of them pulls him to side and announces the deadly strike.

The Hamas fiend looks in a state of shock and disbelief as he is slowly ushered out of the room, barely saying a word.

Reports online say he prayed to God for his sons mercy and acceptance in the clip before leaving.

He is then believed to have carried on with his hospital visit to see injured Gazans like normal.

The terror chief hit out at Israel in his post, stating that they are “driven by the spirit of revenge” as he claimed 60 members of his family have been killed since the start of the war.

There has been no immediate comment from the IDF.

The three brothers – Hazem, Ameer and Mohammed – were travelling with family members in a single vehicle targeted by an Israeli drone, Hamas’ Al-Aqsa TV said.

It said a total of six people were killed, including a daughter of Hazem Haniyeh, and a son and daughter of Ameer.

The strike comes as international mediators have been trying to broker a new ceasefire agreement.

Haniyeh said the alleged killing of his three sons would not pressure the terror group into softening its position in its ceasefire negotiations with Israel.

“The enemy believes that by targeting the families of the leaders, it will push them to give up the demands of our people,” he said.

“Anyone who believes that targeting my sons will push Hamas to change its position is delusional…The blood of my sons is not dearer than the blood of our people.”

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Haniyeh has been the tough-talking face of Hamas’ international diplomacy as warwith Israel raged inside Gaza, where his family home was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike back in November.

The escalation between Israel and Hamas comes as Iran’s supreme leader has stoked fears of an all-out war breaking out in the Middle East after he vowed to “punish” Israel.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned revenge is looming for Israel following a deadly strike on their consulate in the Syrian capital Damascus last week that killed several of its top commanders.

Since the suspected Israeli bombing that left at least 12 dead, Iran has been spewing increasingly potent threats of “punishing” its greatest foe.

And thousands of Iranians have taken to the streets to burn Israeli and US flags while screaming “death” to them both in a display of fury over the embassy airstrike.

The attack on an Iranian diplomatic compound was a significant escalation in what has been a long-running shadow war between the two archenemies.

Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu’s war cabinet has been locked in crunch meetings over fears that Iran will launch an assault.

Israel said last week it was strengthening its air defences and cancelling leave for combat units following Iran’s retaliation threats.

A Western security official revealed this week that Israel will respond to any attacks by striking Iran’s multiple nuclear targets directly.

Israeli forces have allegedly been conducting secret air force drills in preparation for the dangerous escalation, Elaph News reports.

Meanwhile, a top Hamas commander was killed in Israeli air strike early on Tuesday.

Hatem Alramery oversaw the launching of rockets at Israeli forces for months in the Strip before he was taken out in a warplane blitz.

He headed one of the terror group’s cell hidden within Gaza’s central refugee camps.

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