At least 33 people were killed and dozens injured in an Israeli attack on the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, authorities in the Hamas-controlled enclave announced in the early hours of today.
"The number of victims [...] amounts to 33 dead and dozens injured," stressed Mahmoud Bassal, spokesman for the Gaza Strip Civil Defence, an organization dependent on the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas.
A medical source at Al-Awda hospital told Agence France-Presse (AFP) that the institution had received "22 dead and 70 injured" following the attack that hit the Tal az-Zaatar area of the Palestinian refugee camp.
The official Palestinian news agency Wafa, citing sources at Al-Awda Hospital, said that around 20 children and women were among the civilians who died.
The Palestinian news agency Sanad has released a video showing numerous bodies wrapped in blankets, in a report indicating that 30 people died in an Israeli bombing of a house in the Jabalia camp.
The Gaza Health Ministry had said on Friday that Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip had killed 62 Palestinians and injured more than 300 in the past 24 hours.
Friday's attacks came a day after Tel Aviv announced that Yahya Sinouar, the mastermind behind the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, had been killed during a military operation in the southern Gaza Strip.
Sinouar became the top leader of Hamas after Haniyeh was assassinated in a bombing in Iran in July that was blamed on Israel.
Born in 1962 in a refugee camp in the Gaza city of Khan Yunis, Sinouar was an early member of Hamas, which was formed in 1987, and eventually led the group's security wing.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday, following the announcement of the Hamas leader's death, that Israel had "settled its score" with Sinouar, but stressed that "the war is not over yet."
Tensions in the Middle East region have increased following the attack on 7 October 2023 by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas on Israeli territory, which left 1,205 people dead, mostly civilians, and 251 hostages. In retaliation for this, the Israeli army launched a war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip that has already left more than 42,000 dead and 99,000 injured, in addition to more than 10,000 missing, according to the most recent figures from local authorities, which the UN considers reliable.
From Lebanon, Hezbollah joined the attacks on Israel on 8 October, in solidarity with the Palestinian population, thus opening a second battlefront for Israel, on its northern border, which makes the international community fear the spread of the war to the entire Middle East region - even more so since Israel launched a ground offensive on Lebanese territory.
At least 1,418 people have been killed in Lebanon since the intensification of Israeli operations in Lebanon on September 23, according to an AFP tally based on official figures, and more than a million have been forced to flee their homes.
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