The war between Israel and Hamas, the Palestinian militant
group, is closing in on the Gaza Strip’s main population centre as the death
toll continues to mount.
On Tuesday, dozens of people died after an Israeli strike
targeting a Hamas commander hit the Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza.
The Jabalya refugee camp is said to be the largest refugee
camp in Gaza, home to thousands of civilians sheltering from the conflict.
Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry said 50 people were killed
and 150 wounded. But a nearby hospital said it received 400 casualties,
including 120 dead.
A fresh round of bombardment intensified on Thursday morning
after Israel again bombed the densely populated Gaza Strip from land, sea, and
air in its campaign to wipe out the Islamist group after its deadly
cross-border rampage into Israel on October 7.
Bashar Mourad, director of the Al Quds hospital in Gaza City
where up to 14,000 displaced people are reportedly sheltering, told CNN that
the air strikes were “getting closer to the hospital”.
Gaza’s health ministry said the death toll in the city has
risen to 9,061 people, including 3,760 children.
Nearly 2,600 reports of missing people, including 1,150
children missing or buried under the rubble, have been filed, the ministry
added.
Israel had accused Hamas of always “hiding, as they do,
behind civilians” and asked residents of the city to flee.
However, Palestinians and hundreds of foreign nationals only
started crossing into Egypt on Wednesday.
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