Israel’s military said it carried out strikes and raids against Hamas targets in northern Gaza on Sunday. The actions followed days of deadly attacks across the territory.
Israel’s military said it carried out strikes and raids in northern Gaza on Sunday after days of deadly bombardments across the territory.
The military said in a statement that it had targeted a “terrorist meeting point” in the northern town of Beit Hanoun, among other actions.
Wafa, the Palestinian Authority’s news agency, reported that Israeli forces had raided a school building in the town and forced displaced families sheltering there to evacuate in unsafe conditions, killing and wounding several amid bombardment and gunfire. Israel’s military did not directly address the report but said it had “struck dozens of terrorists from the air and ground,” and seized additional terrorists.
In central Gaza, one Israeli strike killed a Palestinian cameraman who worked for Al Jazeera and other media outlets, Al Jazeera reported on Sunday. The cameraman, Ahmed Allouh, was killed in a strike in the Nuseirat refugee camp, the news agency said, along with five members of the Palestinian Civil Defense. Al Jazeera did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In a statement, the Israeli military said on Sunday that its air force had “conducted a precise strike on Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists who were operating in a command and control center embedded in the offices of the ‘Civil Defense’ organization in Nuseirat.” It said that the center was used to “plan and carry out an imminent terror attack” against Israeli troops, and that “numerous steps” were taken to mitigate civilian harm.
Since October, Israel’s military has conducted some of its most devastating attacks in northern Gaza in an effort to crush what it says is a resurgence of the Hamas militant group in the area. The military has called on civilians in much of northern Gaza to evacuate, but many feel they have nowhere safe to go and have not left. The United Nations has warned of dire conditions and the risk of famine for some 400,000 civilians there.
