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The Israeli military said its fighters, on Tuesday, identified several Hamas terrorists who were entrenched in a multi-story building in the Jabaliya area of northern Gaza. This building was located near a school, a medical center and government offices, it said in a post on X.
“The fighters directed air forces that attacked the terrorists,” the military said.
Jabaliya is the largest refugee camp in northern Gaza.
On Tuesday, Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry said over 50 people were killed and 150 were wounded. However, it added that dozens more were likely buried under the rubble. The ministry denounced the attack, calling it “a heinous Israeli massacre” at the camp, the AFP news agency reported.
In an earlier post on Tuesday, the IDF confirmed that it had targeted and “killed Ebrahim Biari, the commander of the Jabalia center battalion of the Hamas terrorist organization, who was one of the leaders of the murderous terrorist attack on October 7.”
Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem denied that any senior commander was in the camp and called the claim an Israeli pretext for killing civilians, Reuters reported.
The Gaza health ministry has said over 8,525 people have been killed in Hamas-controlled territory in the last three weeks. Of the dead, the United Nations reported that 3,450, or 40%, were children.
The Israeli strikes came after Hamas militants conducted wide-scale terrorist attacks on Israel on October 7. Hamas fighters killed some 1,400 people in Israel and took 200 people hostage. Hamas is designated a terrorist organization by Israel, Germany, the European Union, the United States and other countries.
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