The Israeli army confirmed it bombed the Jabaliya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, killing a Hamas commander suspected of being among those responsible for the Palestinian movement’s attack on Israel on October 7.
“Their elimination took place as part of a major operation to combat terrorists and the terrorist infrastructure of the Jabaliya Central Battalion, which took control of civilian buildings in the Gaza Strip.”the army said.
The target of the attack was identified as Ibrahim Biari, commander of Hamas Jabaliya’s central battalion.
The Hamas Health Ministry announced on Tuesday that at least fifty people were killed in an Israeli bombardment of a refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip.
The bombings, whose eventual toll could be significantly higher, according to the ministry, destroyed “at least twenty buildings” in the Jabaliya refugee camp.
In a video filmed by AFPTV, it is possible to count at least 47 bodies, covered with sheets, lined up on the floor of a hospital entrance after being recovered from the rubble. The footage also shows a huge crater and the destruction caused by the bombardment.
The Islamist group Hamas launched a surprise attack on southern Israel on October 7 with the launch of thousands of rockets and the raid of armed militiamen, taking two hundred hostages.
In response, Israel declared war on Hamas, a movement that has controlled the Gaza Strip since 2007 and has been classified as terrorist by the European Union and the United States. Israel bombed several of the group’s infrastructures in the Gaza Strip and imposed a total siege. the area with an interruption of the supply of water, fuel and electricity.
The conflict has already caused thousands of deaths and injuries in both areas, among military personnel and civilians.
Source: DN
