The strikes on Jabalya show the toll of Israel’s relentless air war and the grave dangers facing civilians as ground forces move deeper into the enclave.
Palestinians search for bodies and survivors among the rubble of the Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza on Wednesday, a day after an Israeli airstrike hit the area. JERUSALEM — Kamal Masoud was at home with his wife and five children on Tuesday afternoon in the Jabalya refugee camp. They were talking about how to survive a bombardment when the Israeli missiles struck.
Israel’s military said the strike — the first of three to hit the densely populated camp in just over 24 hours — targeted and killed a senior Hamas commander, Ibrahim Biari, involved in coordinating the group’s attack on southern Israel on Oct. 7, when militantsIsrael Defense Forces spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said Wednesday that other militants were killed alongside Biari, but he did not provide a number.
Pressed by CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Tuesday night about why the military went ahead with the attack in such a populated area, another IDF spokesman, Lt. Col. Richard Hecht, said it was a “very complicated battle space.”“But you know that there are a lot of refugees, a lot of innocent civilians — men, women and children — in that refugee camp as well, right?” Blitzer asked Hecht.
A comparison of satellite imagery provided to The Post by Maxar Technologies, combined with photo and video evidence, reveals at least five distinct impact sites where bombs hit. At least one crater was about 40 feet in diameter, according to The Post’s measurements, which Garlasco said suggests one of the munitions was about 2,000 pounds.
Later that night, another Israeli strike hit a different part of the camp, killing at least 20 people from the same family, according to Sultan.
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