The Israeli army revealed in a statement on Tuesday that its forces last night completed the “encirclement” of the Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip and the elimination of what it described as “terrorists and infrastructure destroyers,” while the Palestinian side announced that dozens of people were killed, including children and women, in sustained shelling in several parts of the sector.
The Israeli army statement said artillery forces and air force aircraft “worked to prepare the field in preparation for fighting in the Jabalia area.”
The statement indicated that “forces attacked terrorist targets with the help of fighter jets and drones, including underground openings on the outskirts of Jabalia where militants were present.”
The same source continued: “Other forces fought battles against saboteurs on the outskirts of Jabalia, using tanks and with the help of drone fire.” Furthermore, “fighters found and destroyed rocket launchers in the area.”
The same source explained that “the ground forces worked in collaboration with the special forces north of Jabalia to open the way for the division’s forces and neutralize terrorist objectives in the region”, adding that “during the activity they eliminated the saboteurs with air support, and seized enemy combat assets in several places, including: this occurred in residential houses and children’s rooms, and destroyed tunnel openings.”
For its part, the Palestinian news agency said that dozens of citizens were killed and injured, including children and women, in raids launched by Israeli aircraft on several areas of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday morning.
Wafa correspondents reported that “occupation warplanes targeted a school housing displaced persons in the Hafsa school in the Al-Faluja area, west of Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip, resulting in deaths and the wounding of many displaced people, including children and women. .”
The same source indicated that “many citizens were killed following the bombing that hit at least 9 houses in the Beit Lahia project, in the north of the Gaza Strip”.
An Israeli bombardment targeted communications towers in Gaza city and the northern Gaza Strip, causing communications from these areas to completely shut down, according to the same source.
The agency reported the killing of 17 Palestinians and the wounding of others, including children and women, after midnight following the shelling of a house in Nuseirat camp in the center of the Gaza Strip.
War broke out between Israel and Hamas after a surprise attack launched by the movement on military sites and residential areas adjacent to the Gaza Strip, which led to the killing of 1,200 people, most of them civilians, including women and children , and the kidnapping of 239 people, according to Israeli authorities.
Since then, Israel has responded with intense air, sea and land bombardment of the besieged Gaza Strip, followed by an ongoing ground operation. The death toll in Gaza has reached more than 13,300 people, most of whom are women and children. children, as well as injuring more than 30,000 people, according to a report released Monday by Hamas’ Ministry of Health.