2023-10-31 21:14:00
The Ministry of Health of Gazaunder the command of Hamas, reported that at least 50 people died this Tuesday in a bombing against a refugee camp, an attack that the army of Israel admitted with the aim of eliminating a commander of the terrorist organization.
The Middle East region remains on high alert due to an escalation of the war between Israel and Hamas, the political and paramilitary group considered terrorist that divides world opinion. After dictating a total blockade of the Strip and rejecting a ceasefire, the Israeli government continued its offensive in the territory to find terrorist cells.
With harsh criticism of the UN, Israel warned that “there will be no ceasefire” if Hamas does not leave Gaza
In recent days, Israeli army troops and tanks entered Gaza City, the largest city in the Strip where 2.3 million Palestinians live, and continued attacks on infrastructure despite warnings from the international community. for the humanitarian situation.
The bombing of Jabaliya
“More than 50 martyrs and nearly 150 wounded and dozens of people under the rubble due to an atrocious Israeli massacre that hit a large area of housing in the Jabaliya camp,” in the northern Gaza Strip, it reported in a statement. the Hamas Ministry of Health.
As part of the evidence, and in a context of growing misinformation, it was the agency AFP which released its own video showing that at least 47 bodies were pulled from the rubble after the attack hit several houses in the camp located in a residential area of Gaza City. In the audiovisual piece you can see dozens of people watching from the edges of two large craters while others searched for survivors.
Israel’s explanation
Hours after the bombing, the Israeli army confirmed that it was the author of the attack on the refugee camp with the accomplished objective of killing Ibrahim Biari, a Hamas commander implicated in the October 7 attack on Israeli territory.
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“Its removal was carried out as part of a broad offensive against terrorists and against the terrorist infrastructures of the Central Jabaliya Battalion, which had taken control of several civilian buildings in Gaza City,” the Israeli army said.
“The bombing damaged Hamas’ command and control in the area, as well as its capabilities to direct military activities” against Israeli soldiers deployed in the Gaza Strip, he added. “A large number of terrorists who were with Biari were killed,” said the same source, adding that tunnels used by Hamas were also destroyed.
For Ragheb Aqal, a resident of Jabaliya, the bombings were like “an earthquake” that shook the entire camp.
Retaliation by the Israel Defense Forces followed the October 7 massacre perpetrated against 1,400 Israelis, most of them civilians, and the kidnapping of another 240. Since then, the war against Hamas involved Israeli bombing of civilian infrastructure in Gaza, resulting in a toll of 8,525 Palestinians murdered, as reported Hamas.
Among the dead are 3,195 children, a figure that Unicef collected when talking about Gaza becoming a “children’s cemetery.” These figures were released prior to the bombing of Jabaliya.
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