Israel continued its ground offensive on Saturday in Loop and bombed a refugee camp, in an action that according to Hamas left dozens dead, “eliminate” to a leader of the Islamist organization involved in the deadly attack on October 7 in Israeli territory.
According to the Ministry of Health of Hamas, 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.
In an AFPTV video you can count up to 47 bodies wrapped in white cloth, lined up on the ground in the courtyard of a hospital, after having been extracted from the rubble. Was “like an earthquake”, said Ragheb Aqal, a 41-year-old resident of Jabaliya.
The Israeli army later confirmed the attack and claimed that it killed Hamas commander Ibrahim Biari, involved in the October 7 raid in which Islamist militants killed 1,400 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapped some 240. , according to the balance of the Jewish State.
During the day, Israeli forces fought “Fierce fighting with Hamas terrorists inside the Gaza Strip”the army reported, ensuring that dozens of Palestinian fighters were killed in the last few hours.
Two Israeli soldiers were killed in operations in the north of the enclave, according to the army, in its first report of casualties since the start of the retaliation campaign.
Previously, Israel said it hit 300 targets in the fourth night of ground raids in Gaza, which faced anti-tank fire and gunfire from Hamas fighters, which has ruled the 632 km2 enclave since 2007.
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 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a setback that “will mark the end of his political career.”
Since October 7, Israeli bombings have killed at least 8,525 people in Gaza, 3,450 of them children, according to Hamas authorities.
“Cemetery of thousands of children”
Netanyahu ignored international pressure for a ceasefire and on Monday claimed this would amount to a “surrender”after having promised “annihilate” to the Palestinian movement.
The Ezzedin al Qassam Brigades stated that they will free “in the coming days” to some of the foreign hostages.
The suffering of civilians in Gaza has generated shock and UN humanitarian agencies say that time is running out for many of the 2.4 million inhabitants of this Palestinian territory that is under siege, without access to water, food, fuel nor medicines.
Gaza has become a “cemetery of thousands of children”, deplored the spokesman for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), James Elder.
The NGO Doctors of the World denounced that surgeons in Gaza must “operate on the ground” and perform cesarean sections or amputations “without anesthesia” due to lack of material.
Israel accuses Hamas of using hospitals as barracks and civilians as “human shields,” something the Islamist movement denies.
Egypt announced that on Wednesday it will receive 81 wounded from Gaza through the Rafah gate, south of the enclave, through which some trucks with humanitarian aid were able to enter in recent days.
“Spiral of death”
The Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, raised their voices to call for a cessation of hostilities.
“A humanitarian ceasefire can at least stop this death spiral,” said Grandi from the rostrum of the Security Council, before imploring the 15 members of the highest UN body to “overcome their divisions and exercise their authority” by imposing this measure.
Guterres said “deeply concerned” by “intensification of conflict” and warned of the risk of a “dangerous escalation beyond Gaza.”
Qatar, an Arab country that has diplomatic contacts with Israel, denounced the bombing of the refugee camp as a “slaughter” and warned that the extension of Israeli bombings could “undermine mediation and de-escalation efforts.”
Bolivia announced the breaking of its diplomatic relations with Israel, in repudiation and condemnation of the aggressive and disproportionate Israeli military offensive being carried out in the Gaza Strip.
The war also exacerbated tensions in the occupied West Bank, where more than 120 Palestinians have been killed since October 7 by gunfire by Israeli soldiers or settlers, according to the Health Ministry of the Palestinian Authority that administers that territory.
The Israeli army bombed Syria and clashes with the Hezbollah group are multiplying on the border with Lebanon.
Yemen’s Houthi rebels claimed responsibility for a drone attack on Israel and the Israeli military said it intercepted a missile launched from the Red Sea region.
Source: Gestion
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