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Jabaliya refugee camp bombed, two French children killed: update on the situation in Gaza (Photo from October 31, 2023 in the Jabaliya refugee camp, showing the craters left by Israeli bombs)
INTERNATIONAL – A new catastrophe. 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.
The Israeli army confirmed the bombing, which it said targeted a Hamas commander, Ibrahim Biari, who is considered one of those responsible for the October 7 attack by the Palestinian movement in Israel.
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At the same time, the French Foreign Ministry announced the deaths of two French children in Gaza.
Here is an update on the situation:
A toll that promises to be very high in Jabaliya
A bomb attack hit several buildings in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip. “At least 20 buildings” were destroyed in this bombing, the final damage of which, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health, could be significantly greater.
In a video shot by AFPTV, 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 two huge craters 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.
A resident of the camp, Ragheb Aqel, 41, told AFP he heard “a huge explosion that shook the whole of Jabaliya.” “I looked and it was an earthquake scene,” he said. “It is terrible, many bodies and injured people are buried under the rubble,” added the forty-year-old.
Israel justifies the attack by citing the presence of terrorists
For its part, the Israeli army stated that the “elimination” of the Hamas commander “took place as part of a large-scale operation to combat terrorists and terrorist infrastructure by the Jabaliya Central Battalion, which had taken control of civilian buildings in the Gaza Strip.
“The attack damaged Hamas’ command and control in the region as well as its ability to direct military activities against Israeli army soldiers operating throughout the Gaza Strip,” it added.
“A large number of terrorists” who were with that Hamas commander were killed, the army said. “The underground infrastructure under the buildings used by the terrorists collapsed after the attack,” the army added.
Two French children killed in Gaza, their mother injured
Later on Tuesday, two French children were killed in the Gaza Strip, with their mother and third child believed to be injured, the French foreign ministry said.
“France learned with sadness of the deaths of two children of French nationality who were found along with their injured French mother and their third child in the north of the Gaza Strip,” the Quai d’Orsay said in a press release. the circumstances of the death are not explained in more detail.
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However, the French Consulate General in Jerusalem “fails to establish direct contact with this national on the spot,” which “does not allow at this time to verify the situation of this family,” continued French authorities, who say they will continue their efforts to “reach this national and provide assistance and support to her and her family.”
There is an international arrest warrant against the mother
According to a French source familiar with the case, who does not know the children’s ages, the 43-year-old mother “has been the subject of an international arrest warrant since July 2016 for criminal conspiracy to prepare terrorist attacks.” and financing a terrorist enterprise.”
According to this source, she was born in Talence (southwest) and is president of an association that carried out a fundraising campaign for the transport of medical equipment and medicines to Syria in 2013, funds that were actually “transported” in the summer of 2013 in the Idlib region for the benefit of jihadists with the aim of obtaining weapons and ammunition.
In February 2019, the mother was sentenced in absentia in Paris to six years in prison for distributing money collected by her association to members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, another movement, in Gaza in 2012 and 2013. At the hearing it was made clear that she has had to live in Gaza since 2016.
Paris calls again for a “humanitarian ceasefire”
On Tuesday afternoon, the Hamas Ministry of Health announced that 8,525 people, including 3,542 children, had been killed in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war with Israel.
France “is once again urging that foreign nationals, and in particular our compatriots, be able to leave Gaza,” Quai’s press release said.
Paris says it “also reiterates its urgent call for a humanitarian ceasefire so that humanitarian aid can reach those who need it.”
“Humanitarian access must be continuous, rapid, safe and unhindered so that assistance can sustainably respond to the needs of the civilian population in Gaza,” said the Quai d’Orsay.
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