At least 50 people were killed in an Israeli attack on the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. Both Hamas and the Israeli military report this. According to Israel, the victims were members of the terrorist militia.
According to Israeli and Palestinian sources, dozens of people were killed in Israeli attacks on the Jabalia refugee camp in the north of the Gaza Strip. Israel’s army said ground troops had killed around 50 terrorists. Airplanes were also used. The major attack targeted Hamas’ infrastructure, which also took over civilian buildings. Military spokesman Daniel Hagari said an underground Hamas facility beneath a building collapsed, causing other houses nearby to collapse. Tunnels also collapsed as a result of the attack. The operation killed Hamas commander Ibrahim Biari, who is said to have been involved, among other things, in the Hamas massacres in the Israeli border area on October 7th.
According to the Health Ministry, which is controlled by the militant Islamist terrorist militia Hamas, at least 50 people were killed and more than 100 injured in the attack. But there are suspected to be more dead under the rubble. A doctor at Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip put the death toll at at least 35, including women and children. In addition, more than 200 injured people were admitted to the clinic.
Conflict parties as a source
In the current situation, information on the course of the war, shelling and casualties provided by the Palestinian and Israeli conflict parties cannot be directly verified by an independent body.
Continued Rocket fire on Israel
Israel said it had attacked 300 targets in the Gaza Strip during the day, including ramps for launching rockets. Nevertheless, there was another rocket alarm in the evening – rockets from the Gaza Strip were also intercepted by Israeli air defense in the Tel Aviv area.
There were also rocket alarms in southern Israel, in Eilat on the Red Sea. Numerous people fled to the shelters there. It was later said that Israel’s army had repelled two drone and rocket attacks from Yemen. In total, the Israeli civil defense app recorded – as in the past few days – dozens of air alerts in several Israeli towns and cities.
Dozens of trucks carrying aid supplies reach the Gaza Strip
On the other hand, cautiously positive news comes from the Gaza Strip’s border with Egypt. A total of 66 trucks carrying relief supplies crossed the border within 24 hours. This is the largest number since deliveries began 11 days ago. Before the war, around 500 trucks came to the Gaza Strip every day to supply the people there. There is still a lack of food, water, medical supplies and fuel.
There is also talk that the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip could be opened to treat injured people on the Egyptian side. Employees of the Egyptian Red Crescent have been informed to be ready, it said.
The Israeli government’s security advisor, Tsahi Hanegbi, said: “Egypt is a state with which we are friends. The state is at peace with us. We know that it is important to Egypt to prevent an influx of displaced Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Egypt. There is also the possibility of setting up field hospitals right on the border between Egypt and Gaza. There are many things that Egypt can help innocent civilians with.”
Field hospitals could become necessary because most hospitals in the Gaza Strip can no longer function properly. And the number of civilian casualties in the Gaza Strip is expected to continue to rise. Israel is expanding its ground offensive – in the north of the Gaza Strip, where the war is particularly violent, there are, according to UN figures, up to 300,000 civilians who have not followed the call to leave the area. According to Israel, Hamas is preventing many of these people from fleeing.
Another Guterres appeal
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres once again called on the Israeli army and the terrorist organization Hamas to give top priority to protecting civilians. Human rights should not be ignored, said Guterres in New York. Proportionality must be maintained in the fighting. Guterres also called again for a humanitarian ceasefire and unhindered access for aid workers to the Gaza Strip.
Israel has been attacking Gaza since October 7 in response to a massacre on its territory by Hamas terrorists. Around 1,400 Israelis were murdered – most of them civilians. Around 200 people, including old people and children, were kidnapped by Hamas into the Gaza Strip.
With information from Jan-Christoph Kitzler, ARD Studio Tel Aviv.