Israeli forces bombed this Wednesday, for the second time in less than 24 hours, the Jabalia refugee camp, in the north of the Gaza Strip, in a new attack that represents “another tragic massacre,” said the Islamist group Hamas, which controls in enclave.
The attack caused “dozens of deaths and injuries,” according to the official Palestinian agency Wafa, which stated that the bombing targeted the Falujah neighborhood, in the same field, and estimated that among the dead and injured there may be many women and children.. The Islamist group Hamas, ruling in Gaza, assured that Israel “perpetrated a tragic massacre”, in what it described as “the second consecutive crime in the Jabalia camp in less than 24 hours.”
“These heartbreaking events are part of a harrowing sequence of massacres in the Gaza Strip that will forever cast a dark shadow on the collective conscience of humanity,” added Hamas, which denounced that “the international community remains silent” in the face of the Israeli offensive. about the enclave that in 26 days of war has left almost 8,800 dead and more than 22,200 injured.
Against a Hamas commander
This Tuesday, a first and forceful Israeli bombardment on the Jabalia field left at least 145 people dead, according to hospital sources informed EFE.
According to the Israeli Army, the attack targeted a Hamas militia commander, causing his death and that of another fifty militiamen hiding in tunnels in the area.
Israeli warplanes launched tons of explosives into the underground, causing the destruction of the foundations of buildings in the area – with a high population density – and the demolition of many of the buildings, according to sources in Gaza.
Israel and Hamas are this Wednesday in the 26th day of war, which broke out on October 7 after a surprise attack by the Islamist group on Israel that left more than 1,400 dead.
Gaza suffers a serious humanitarian crisis due to the almost total Israeli siege and its veto on access to food, water, medicine and fuel. This has left many hospitals at their limit and some 16 of them out of operation due to the lack of gasoline and electricity, a problem that is getting worse while the number of deaths and injuries, many of them children and women, continues to increase.