Battle for the North: IDF Launches Daring Ground Offensive in Gaza’s Hamas Heartland

Hamas-controlled ministry: Dozens killed in new strike in Gaza camp

Gaza’s Health Ministry, controlled by the Hamas group, said dozens of people were killed and wounded Wednesday in the second Israeli bombardment in two days in the territory’s largest refugee camp, Jabalia.

A day after Israel admitted carrying out the first strikes and said they were aimed at Hamas’s top commander, the ministry said “dozens of martyrs and wounded were killed in the bombing by warplanes.”

Pictures obtained by the AFP news agency showed dozens of rescuers pulling bodies and wounded from collapsed buildings around another large, debris-strewn crater that opened up after Wednesday’s shelling.

Rescue workers said entire families were killed on Wednesday, but casualty figures could not be immediately verified.

The Israeli military did not immediately comment on the strikes.

More than 50 people were killed in Tuesday’s attack, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which is controlled by the Hamas group.

UN humanitarian chief Griffiths condemned the strike on the Jabalia refugee camp after a two-day visit to the region.

“This is just the latest atrocity to hit the people of the Gaza Strip, where the fighting has entered an even more horrific phase and its humanitarian consequences are becoming increasingly catastrophic,” Mr Griffiths said in a statement.

He said that “the world seems unable or unwilling to act”, adding that “this cannot continue. We need fundamental changes.”

Mr Griffiths said: “We need the warring parties to agree to a cessation of hostilities” in order to allow the Palestinian territories, home to 2.4 million people. people could get much-needed help.

Israel said Tuesday’s strike killed a senior Hamas commander based in the Jabalia refugee camp, Ibrahim Biari, “who was one of those who led the October 7 terrorist attack.”

Israel began bombing the Gaza Strip after Hamas gunmen stormed the border on October 7, killing 1,400 people. people, mostly civilians, and kidnapped more than 240 people, according to Israeli officials.

The Ministry of Health of the Gaza Strip, controlled by the Hamas group, reported that more than 8,700 Palestinians have died in the Palestinian territory since the start of the war with Israel. people, of which more than 6 thousand women and children.

Hamas’s military wing said the blast killed seven hostages, including three foreign nationals.

REUTERS-Scanpix photo.

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