Summary
- Israel’s military has confirmed that its jets carried out the attack on the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza
- The IDF says the strike killed a senior Hamas commander and caused the collapse of Hamas’s underground infrastructure.
- The Hamas-run health ministry and a hospital director say at least 50 people were killed; pictures from the scene show craters and levelled buildings
- The camp is in northern Gaza – an area where Israel has told people to leave for their safety
- On Tuesday morning, Israel said it hit 300 targets in Gaza overnight as its air strikes and ground offensive continue
- The IDF says its ground forces were attacked by “terrorists” with anti-tank missiles and machine gun fire
- Israel has been bombing Gaza since the 7 October Hamas attacks that killed 1,400 people and saw at least 239 people kidnapped as hostages
- The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says more than 8,500 people have been killed since Israel’s retaliatory bombing began
Categories: The Muslim Times
With updates from BBC: Rushdi Abualouf in Gaza; Jeremy Bowen, Anna Foster and Lucy Williamson in southern Israel; Lyse Doucet, Yolande Knell, Paul Adams, Wyre Davies and Alice Cuddy in Jerusalem; and Hugo Bachega in southern Lebanon
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67258466
Video: ‘You decided to still drop a bomb’: Wolf Blitzer presses IDF spokesman on Israeli airstrike on refugee camp
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer interviews a spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces about the deadly airstrike that the IDF says targeted a top Hamas commander in Gaza’s largest refugee camp.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2023/10/31/wolf-idf-spokesperson-gaza-refugee-camp-airstrike-reaction-vpx.cnn