In an AFPTV video you can count up to 47 bodies wrapped in white cloth, lined up on the ground in the courtyard of a hospital, after having been extracted from the rubble. It was “like an earthquake,” said Ragheb Aqal, a 41-year-old resident of Jabaliya.
The Israeli army later confirmed the attack and claimed that it killed Hamas commander Ibrahim Biari, involved in the October 7 raid in which Islamist militants killed 1,400 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapped some 240. , according to the balance of the Jewish State.
During the day, Israeli forces fought “fierce battles with Hamas terrorists inside the Gaza Strip,” the army reported, ensuring that dozens of Palestinian fighters were killed in the last few hours.
Two Israeli soldiers were killed in operations in the north of the enclave, according to the army, in its first report of casualties since the start of the retaliation campaign.
Previously, Israel said it hit 300 targets in the fourth night of ground raids in Gaza, which faced anti-tank fire and gunfire from Hamas fighters, which has ruled the 632 km2 enclave since 2007.
The Ezzedin al Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, proclaimed that Gaza will become a “cemetery” for Israeli soldiers and promised to inflict on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a setback that “will mark the end of his political career.”