Letest news update:-Israel kills second Hamas leader in a airstrike jabalia refugee camp in gaza and also civilian gathering near Egypt border.
GAZA/JERUSALEM, -e first group of civilian refugees crossed into Egypt from t Israeli forces on Wednesday killed Hamas’ second leader in Gaza’s Jabalia A second attack on a refugee camp killed another Hamas group, military commander Days announced. He said this when the besieged enclave.
Israel presses forward with its offensive against Hamas militants, once again using land, sea and air access to the densely populated Gaza Strip to wipe out Islamic extremists who crossed the border into southern Israel on October 7. It bombed.
Palestinians frantically search through the rubble for trapped victims after the Israeli attack on Jabalia, the largest refugee camp in the Gaza Strip.“This is a massacre,” said a witness to the strike.
The Israeli military said its fighter jets struck a Hamas command and control complex in Jabalia “based on precise intelligence,” killing the head of the Islamist group’s anti-tank missile unit, Muhammad A’sar.
“Hamas deliberately builds its terror infrastructure under, around and within civilian buildings, intentionally endangering Gazan civilians,” an Israeli statement said.
“Given the high number of civilian casualties & the scale of destruction following Israeli air strikes on Jabalia refugee camp, we have serious concerns that these are disproportionate attacks that could amount to war crimes,” the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights wrote on social media site X.
There were no immediate figures from Gaza authorities on casualties from the explosion at the camp on Wednesday.
Palestinian health officials said the first Israeli airstrike on Tuesday killed about 50 people and wounded 150.
Israel said Tuesday’s attack killed Ibrahim Biari, the alleged mastermind of the October 7 attack on Israel.
The US State Department announced that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Israel and Jordan on Friday. He is scheduled to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to ask about the status of Israel’s military objectives.
Vision of Death Dr. Fatih Abu al-Hassan, a US passport holder waiting to enter Egypt, described hellish conditions in the Gaza Strip, with no water, food or shelter.
“We open our eyes to the dead and close our eyes to the dead,” he said as he waited for passage into Egypt.
“If this happened in any other country…even in the desert, (people) would come together (to help) us,” he said.
Those who have taken refuge in Egypt and are trapped in Gaza since the war began on 7 October include Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Finland, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Jordan, the United Kingdom and the British States. Included were passport holders from Officials said they drove through the Rafah border crossing and underwent security checks.
At least 320 foreign passport holders and seriously injured Gazans included in an initial list of 500 were arrested as part of an agreement between Egypt, Israel and Hamas, Egyptian sources and Palestinian officials said on Wednesday.
Dozens of people returned home. The governor of Egypt’s North Sinai region later told reporters that at least 49 medical evacuees had arrived in Egypt.
