At least 50 Palestinian civilians were killed yesterday in an Israeli bombing of the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, the same day the UN warned of an “imminent humanitarian catastrophe” in the territory and Israeli troops reported “intense fighting”. “With Hamas forces in a vast network of tunnels built by the terrorist group.
The first images of the attack on the Jabaliya refugee camp show entire buildings reduced to rubble and several large craters in the ground. At least 50 people were killed and more than 150 injured, but there are fears many victims are still buried under the rubble.
Over the past few hours, Israeli forces have carried out more than 300 air strikes on the Gaza Strip and for the first time entered the Hamas tunnels (see background fragment), which extend underneath the entire Gaza Strip, as well as the headquarters of the militants’ command centers, barracks and warehouses. weapon. It is in the tunnels that Israel hopes to find and rescue most of the more than 200 hostages taken by Hamas in the October 7 attacks. Meanwhile, the terror group yesterday promised to release “some foreign hostages” in the coming days, but did not specify how many or when.