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The Israeli army confirmed the attack, adding that a Hamas commander was killed.
Published on October 31, 2023 7:01 p.m. Updated on October 31, 2023 7:31 p.m
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An image from AFPTV video footage shows Palestinians searching for survivors in a crater after an attack on a refugee camp in Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip on October 31, 2023. (FADI ALWHIDI / AFP)
The Hamas government’s Health Ministry announced on Tuesday, October 31, that at least 50 people had been killed in an Israeli bombing attack on a refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip. “At least 20 buildings” in the Jabaliya camp were destroyed in the bombing, whose final damage could be significantly greater, according to the same ministry.
The Israeli army itself confirmed this attack, adding that a Hamas commander was killed. “Its elimination came as part of a major operation to combat terrorists and terrorist infrastructure by the Jabaliya Central Battalion, which had taken control of civilian buildings in the Gaza Strip,” the army said.
In a video shot by the Agence France-Presse television department, we can count at least 47 bodies wrapped in shrouds lying on the ground in the courtyard of a hospital after being recovered from the rubble. The images also show a huge crater and the destruction caused by the bombing. “In the Jabaliya massacre, more than 20 buildings were destroyed on the heads of their residents and more than 50 martyrs arrived at the hospital,” the ministry said in a statement to the media. Dozens of camp residents “lie under the rubble,” he added.
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