At least 50 people were killed and another 150 wounded in an Israeli airstrike at a refugee camp in northern Gaza, according to Palestinian medical officials.
An Israeli airstrike at a refugee camp in northern Gaza killed at least 50 people, including a key Hamas commander linked to the Oct. 7 terror attack on innocent civilians, reports said.
A series of aerial explosives rained down on residential dwellings at the center of the Jabalia refugee camp — located in the densely populated northern portion of the besieged enclave, according to Hamas officials.
The Israeli military said that the strikes were aimed at Hamas’ terror infrastructure in an area where civilians were warned to evacuate.
“This is the tragedy of war,” IDF spokesperson Lt. Col. Richard Hecht told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer after the attack on Tuesday.
Hecht accused Hamas of “hiding, as they do, behind civilians” and urged anyone remaining in Gaza “to move south” per Israel’s evacuation order.
Two IDF soldiers were killed while fighting in northern Gaza on Tuesday — the first Israeli ground troop death reported since Israel expanded its invasion into the enclave four days ago, a military spokesperson said.
The two soldiers, of the Givati Brigade, were killed in “hand-to-hand combat,” IDF’s Daniel Hagari told The Wall Street Journal.
Footage obtained by Reuters shows people at the destroyed refugee camp desperately searching for survivors through the rubble of the destroyed cement buildings, surrounded by deep craters.
The dead, covered in cloth, were laid out in the street by medics.
