Nearly 50 Palestinians were killed on Sunday nightfollowing the bombings in the Gaza Strip, and the Israeli army declared having killed a commander of the Islamist movement Hamas.
“The Israel Defense Forces (IDF), guided by the secret services, eliminated in an airstrike Emad Karika, who was serving as the new commander of the Shejaiya battalion of the Hamas terrorist organization, after his predecessor was killed in combat” , they claim. published the FDI on the social network X (formerly Twitter).
A bombing in a square in the Maghazi countryside, in the center of the enclave, caused the death of at least 22 civiliansthe Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.
At least five Palestinians died in the Nuseirat refugee camp, also in the central Gaza Strip. In the Deir al Bala camp, a woman and a child died after a bombing, the Palestinian newspaper Filastin reported on the Telegram messaging platform.
In the cities of Khan Yunis and Rafah (south), Israeli planes killed four and six peoplerespectively, after having hit residential buildings.
On October 7, Israel launched a large-scale attack on the Gaza Strip in response to an attack by Hamas commandos on Israeli soil, infiltrated from Gaza, in which 1,200 people were killed, according to Israeli authorities.
Hamas also took around 240 hostages, 138 of whom remain in captivity. In response, Israel vowed to annihilate Hamas, in power in the Gaza Strip since 2007 and classified as a terrorist organization by the United States, the European Union and Israel.
Following the war declared by Israel, around 18,000 Palestinians have died in the Gaza Strip alone, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, controlled by Hamas.
Source: TSF
