At least 145 people were killed this Tuesday as a result of Israeli bombing of the Jabalia refugee camp, in the north of the Gaza Strip, hospital sources told Efe. About 90 were taken to the Indonesian Strip Hospital, while another 55 were transferred to the Kamal Adwan center, both in the north of the enclave.

A public relations official from the Indonesian hospital explained that the bombings took place around 3:00 PM local time (1:00 PM GMT).

The attack also injured several hundred, official sources said.

In a statement, Egypt deplores these indiscriminate attacks on defenseless civilians in their refuges and near medical centers, which aggravate the crisis and the deterioration of humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip.

This photo, taken from a position near Sderot along Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip on October 31, 2023, shows plumes of smoke rising during Israeli bombardments amid ongoing fighting between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement. Photo: AFP

The Israeli government’s National Security Advisor, Tzachi Hanegbi, says the entire conceptual framework with which Israel viewed its security until October 7 “has disappeared.”

“There is no longer ‘one round’, ‘one operation’, no longer amorphous objectives such as ‘strengthen deterrence’, ‘obtain a prize’, ‘a painful blow to the infrastructure’, ‘burn the enemy’s conscience’. The October 7 massacre ended the illusion that we were facing an enemy that would not risk its total annihilation,” Hanegbi said.

Hamas must “cease to exist,” and that is the mission of the Israeli army, Hanegbi emphasized.

Israeli army officials today confirmed the death of Hamas commander Nasim Abu Ajina. who founded the paragliding unit that attacked on October 7.

Twenty-five years ago today, the war between Israel and Hamas began after the Palestinian Islamist organization attacked Israeli territory on October 7, killing 1,400, wounding more than 5,400 and abducting 240 to Gaza.

Since that date, Israel has bombed the Strip daily and last Friday expanded its ground operations in the area, killing more than 8,500 and injuring more than 21,500, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.

Another Hamas commander killed

Also killed in the Jabalia bombing was Ibrahim Biari, the commander of Hamas’s Central Jabaliya Battalion, who Israel says was one of the Hamas commanders responsible for sending elite militia members into Israel to carry out the October 7 attacks to be carried out, according to the Israeli army. .

Many Hamas members also fell along with Biari, Israeli military spokesman Admiral Daniel Hagari said.

Hagari said Biari and his men were hiding in a building that was hit by an air force projectile and collapsed on impact.

Third phase of the war

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday referred to the advance of troops on the ground, which he said “is happening in measured but strong steps, making systematic progress.”

The National Security Advisor, a very close aide to Netanyahu, indicated that “we have already entered the third phase of the war, which we are determined to win, despite the pain.”

“It is our duty to create the conditions for returning the abductees and the military effort is also to bring them back,” he stressed.

Hamas says it will release more hostages “in the coming days.”

The spokesman for the al-Qasam Brigades, Hamas’s armed wing, Abu Obeida, said on Tuesday that they would release “in the coming days” more hostages they captured during the October 7 attack.

“We have informed the mediators that we will release several hostages in the coming days, in line with our desire not to keep them in Gaza,” Abu Obeida said in a televised address. (JO)