The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed that they bombed the Jabaliya area of Gaza on Tuesday, ending up hitting a refugee camp, to kill Ibrahim Biari, identified as the commander of the Hamas Central Jabaliya battalion.
“Their elimination was carried out through a large-scale bombardment of terrorists and terrorist structures belonging to the Central Jabaliya battalion, which had taken control of civilian buildings in Gaza City,” Israeli forces said in a statement. published in telegram.
In the same communication, Israel writes that “Hamas’ command and control over the area has been damaged, as well as the ability to direct military activity against IDF soldiers in the Gaza Strip” and notes that “a large number of terrorists who were with Biaria died.”
“The underground terrorist infrastructure that was under the buildings and used by the terrorists also collapsed during the attack,” they added.
This afternoon’s attack on Jabaliya killed at least 50 people, and Gaza’s Health Ministry puts the death toll at at least 100 as bodies are still being recovered from the rubble.
“Dozens of people are under the rubble due to an atrocious Israeli massacre that affected a large housing area in the Jabaliya camp” in the northern Gaza Strip, the ministry said in a statement.
Israel alleges that Biari was one of the Hamas commanders responsible for the October 7 attacks on Israel, the 2004 attack on the port of Ashdod, and rocket fire and multiple attacks against the IDF over the past 20 years.
Source: TSF
