2023-11-01 02:37:39
Houthi fighters gather during a military maneuver near Sana’a, Yemen, on October 30, 2023. | Photo: REUTERS
It should be remembered that the Israeli army stated this Tuesday that its forces intercepted a missile launched from the Red Sea region, in the midst of an escalation of tensions due to the war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
“A surface-to-surface missile was fired towards Israeli territory from the Red Sea area and was successfully intercepted by the ‘Arrow’ air defense system,” the army said in a statement.
Israel bombs Gaza refugee camp
According to the Hamas Ministry of Health, in power in the Gaza Strip, the bombing of the Jabaliya refugee camp, in the north of the Palestinian territory, left “more than 50” dead.
Palestinians search for victims at the site of Israeli attacks on houses in the Jabalia refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip, October 31, 2023. REUTERS/Anas al-Shareef | Photo: REUTERS
It was “like an earthquake,” said Ragheb Aqal, a 41-year-old resident of Jabaliya.
The Israeli army assured that in that action it killed the Hamas commander Ibrahim Biari, involved in the October 7 raid in which the Islamist militiamen killed 1,400 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapped some 240, according to the report. Hebrew state.
Israeli army spokesman Jonathan Conricus said Biari was in “a vast complex of underground tunnels from where he was directing operations.”
“We attacked this complex and we estimate that dozens of Hamas fighters were with it and were also killed when the underground complex collapsed,” he explained to the press.
An Israeli soldier holds a gun behind a military vehicle in a location designated as Gaza, as the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas continues, in this screenshot obtained from a video released on October 30, 2023. Defense of Israel/ Leaflet via REUTERS | Photo: REUTERS
Two Israeli soldiers were killed in operations in the north of the enclave, according to the army, in its first casualty report since the start of the campaign.
Earlier, Israel said it hit 300 targets in the fourth night of ground raids in Gaza, in which its troops came under anti-tank fire and gunfire from Hamas fighters.
The Ezzedin al Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, proclaimed that Gaza will become a “cemetery” for Israeli soldiers and promised to inflict on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a setback that “will mark the end of his political career.”
Since October 7, Israeli bombings have caused at least 8,525 deaths in Gaza, 3,450 of them children, according to the authorities of this 632 km2 territory governed by Hamas since 2007.
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