The Gaza Ministry of Health said at least 15 people were killed, but it did not say how many could have been militants.
A few hours later, news broke that a separate Israeli operation in southern Gaza, carried out the previous day, had killed Hamas’ top leader Yahya Sinwar.
Israel has recently warned Palestinians to leave northern Gaza, where its military operations have increased over the last several weeks.
Hezbollah has said it will continue those attacks, in support of Hamas, until the war in Gaza ends.
The Israeli attacks have killed more than 2,300 people in Lebanon and displaced most of the country’s population, according to the Lebanese health ministry.
An Israeli airstrike on a school in Jabalia, the northern Gaza Strip, that was providing shelter to displaced people resulted in the deaths of over a dozen Palestinians, including children, the health ministry in the Palestinian territory ruled by Hamas reported. In a statement, the Israel Defense Forces claimed to have struck “a compound that previously served as the ‘Abu Hassan’ School,” claiming that “dozens of terrorists from the Islamic Jihad and Hamas organizations were present there.”. “. .
At least fifteen people were slain, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, though it did not specify the number of potential terrorists.
Shortly afterward, there were reports that Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas, had been killed by an Israeli operation in southern Gaza the day before. Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz announced that Sinwar had been killed by IDF soldiers in southern Gaza. Sinwar was “who is responsible for the massacre and atrocities of October 7,” according to Katz.
Following Hamas’ October 23 launch of its campaign, Sinwar has been one of Israel’s most wanted individuals. 7, 2023, a cross-border terror attack that claimed 1,200 lives and kidnapped 251 others.
The IDF released a list of twelve suspected terrorists’ names who it claimed were among those utilizing the compound as a command and control center after the attack on the Jabalia school building. It stated that an intelligence-driven “precise strike” was carried out against the men “involved in rocket attacks against Israeli territory, as well as in planning and committing terrorist attacks against IDF troops and the State of Israel in recent days.”. ****.
The number of suspected terrorists killed in the attack was not disclosed by the IDF, but it claimed that their alleged presence at the school—which, like most in Gaza, has served as a shelter for Palestinians fleeing the year-long conflict—was “an additional example of the Hamas terrorist organization’s systematic abuse of civilian infrastructure in violation of international law.”. “.”.
The IDF claimed that the images and videos of weapons that were allegedly taken by soldiers on the ground prior to Thursday’s attack and discovered inside the school building were proof of a “full combat compound.”. “.
Israel has recently issued an order for Palestinians to evacuate northern Gaza, where it has been conducting more military operations in recent weeks.
The attack happened four days after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other officials received a curt letter from the Biden administration threatening to cut off Israel’s continuous supply of American weapons and war funds if humanitarian conditions in the ravaged Gaza Strip didn’t improve within a month.
Recognizing that Hamas frequently uses civilian infrastructure in Gaza to hold fighters and weapons, the White House emphasized that civilians must still be protected and cannot be classified as combatants if they are unable or unwilling to leave areas that terror groups use.
The USA. s. further stated in the letter to Israeli officials that the Biden administration disagreed with Israel’s recent tactics in the parallel war it has been waging in Lebanon against Hezbollah, an ally of Hamas. Israel claims that the goal of its operation in Lebanon is to stop Hezbollah’s relentless assault on Israel’s northern border with rocket and drone strikes, which has been ongoing for a year. Hezbollah has declared that it will keep up these strikes in support of Hamas until the conflict in Gaza is resolved.
The majority of Lebanon’s population has been forced to flee their homes and more than 2,300 people have died as a result of Israeli attacks, according to the health ministry of Lebanon.
The IDF has been pounding Gaza and Lebanon with massive airstrikes this week, claiming it is acting in legitimate self defense, even as Israel has taken steps to reverse the dramatic drop in humanitarian aid flowing into Gaza since receiving the letter from the Biden administration.
According to the health ministry in Gaza, since Israel began its war on Hamas in retaliation for the U.S. s. and the horrific October actions of an Israeli-designated terrorist group. Seven Attacks.
