The Israeli forces bombed this Wednesday, for second time in less than 24 hourshe Yabalia refugee camp, the largest in the Gaza Strip. A new attack that the Islamist group Hamas, which controls the enclave, has described as “another tragic massacre.”

Specifically, the bombing was against the Falujah neighborhood, in the same field, and would have caused “dozens of dead and injureds”, according to the official Palestinian agency ‘Wafa’. Among the dead and injured there may be many women and children.

“These heartbreaking events are part of a harrowing sequence of massacres in the Gaza Strip that will forever cast a dark shadow on the collective conscience of humanity,” denounced Hamas, which reproaches that “the international community remains silent” in the face of the Israeli offensive on the enclave. In 26 days of war it has left almost 8,800 dead and more than 22,200 injured.

A day before, on Tuesday, a first and forceful Israeli bombardment on the Jabalia field that resulted in at least 145 people deadaccording to hospital sources.

The Israeli Army, which has confirmed the attack, argues that it targeted a Hamas militia commander, causing his death and that of another fifty militiamen hiding in tunnels in the area.

Israeli warplanes launched tons of explosives into the underground, causing the destruction of the foundations of buildings in the area – with a high population density – and the demolition of many of the buildings, according to sources in Gaza.

The UN calls the bombing an “atrocity”

The United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Martin Griffiths, has called “atrocity” the bombing carried out on Tuesday by Israel against the Jabalia refugee camp.

Griffiths, who in the last two days has visited Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, has indicated that “numerous civilians” have died in the attack, which he has described as “the latest atrocity endured by the people of Gaza, where the fighting has entered in an even more terrifying phase, with increasingly dire humanitarian consequences.

“October 7 and its consequences will leave indelible scars on the lives of millions of people,” he lamented, before stating that “in Israel, a nation was left shocked after the brutal murder of some 1,400 people” in the attacks carried out. by the Palestinian Islamist group, while “the families of more than 200 hostages continue to live in anguish, without being clear about the fate, well-being and whereabouts of their loved ones.”