An Israeli airstrike killed 76 members of an extended family in Gaza City, the Associated Press reported on its website, citing aid workers in the enclave who today reported the death toll from yesterday's raid on a building in the city. The attack “was among the bloodiest in the war between Israel and Hamas,” said Mahmoud Bassal, spokesman for the Gaza Civil Protection Department, providing an incomplete list of names and stressing that among the dead were women and children as well as Issam al-Mughrabi, a U.N. employee development program, his wife and their five children.
Medical sources in the Gaza Strip report that at least 20 people were killed in an attack this evening in Nuseirat camp and Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. This was reported by Haaretz, after which media in the enclave this morning reported IDF attacks in various locations along the Gaza Strip, from Jabaliya in the north to Rafah in the south. Firefights and heavy bombings were reported in Jabalya in the eastern neighborhoods and several locations, and Hamas and Islamic Jihad announced that their men were engaged in firefights with the Israeli army.
Israel: “Over 200 Hamas activists captured in Gaza”
Over “200 Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists were arrested during the week and taken to Israel for questioning.” The military spokesman announced this, stressing that “some of the militants surrendered voluntarily.” From the beginning of the operation in Gaza to today, according to the same source, “over 700 activists of terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip have been captured and interrogated.” The Israeli army “attacked several Hezbollah terrorist targets, including operational infrastructure, terrorist infrastructure and a military complex” last night and this morning. The military spokesman said that “the IDF also attacked with artillery on Lebanese territory.”
The Israeli army continues its operations in the central and northern Gaza Strip
The Israeli army continues to operate in the center, south and north of the Gaza Strip. According to the military spokesman, “a cache of weapons hidden in toy boxes at a kindergarten” was discovered during an operation in the Bakshi suburb of Gaza City. “Dozens of mortar shells, helmets and grenade launchers” were confiscated. South of Gaza City, in the suburb of Issa, Israeli aircraft and ground troops have “eliminate dozens of terrorists,” according to the same source. Operations also took place in the Shati refugee camp in the north of the Palestinian enclave, where “three terrorists were killed”.
Guterres: “Nothing justifies Hamas terrorism on October 7th”
“Nothing can justify the terrible terrorist attacks carried out by Hamas on October 7 or the brutal kidnapping of around 250 hostages.” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said this on “unconditional release of all remaining hostages”. Guterres' intervention followed the Security Council's resolution on humanitarian aid to Gaza, adopted yesterday at the Glass Palace, which made no mention of condemning the Hamas terrorist attack.
In the 75 days of war in Gaza, 136 UN staff were killed, which was “unprecedented” in the history of the UN, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told his colleagues. “Many of our employees had to leave their homes. I pay my respects to them and the thousands of humanitarian workers who risk their lives to help civilians in Gaza,” Guterres wrote again in his tweet.
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