The refugee camp in Jabalia, Gaza, has been struck again, one day after the Israeli airstrike that resulted in dozens of deaths and widespread condemnation.
Hamas said on Wednesday, November 1, that seven hostages from its October 7 attacks, including three foreign passport holders, were killed in Israel’s bombing of Gaza’s largest refugee camp.
Dozens of bodies were seen on Tuesday at the Jabalia camp, where Israel said it killed a Hamas military commander in a strike on a tunnel complex. No details were given, and it was impossible to verify the claim independently. The military wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, previously announced that “almost 50” hostages had been killed in earlier raids.
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The Israeli military said its fighter jets “assassinated Ibrahim Biari, commander of the Jabalia brigade of the Hamas terrorist organization, who was one of those who directed the murderous terrorist attack on October 7.” It added that “Hamas’s underground military infrastructure beneath these buildings collapsed” in the strike, and “many Hamas terrorists” were killed.
Facing growing domestic pressure, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said freeing the hostages is a priority of the military campaign. Questioned this week about the civilian toll in Gaza and the risk to hostages, Netanyahu said there had to be “a moral distinction between the deliberate murder of the innocent and the unintentional casualties that accompany every legitimate war, even the most just war.”
Gabriela De La Cruz, with AFP
