An investigation by the American newspaper “Wall Street Journal” said that an Israeli air strike on the Jabalia camp in the Gaza Strip, on October 31, killed a leader of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), but it also led to the killing of dozens of civilians.
The investigation added that Israel decided not to warn civilians in the area of an imminent air strike, via phone messages, for fear of giving the militants time to evacuate.
The Wall Street Journal investigation stated that the Israeli army dropped at least two of the largest bombs in its arsenal on the Jabalia camp, leading to the assassination of Ibrahim Biyari, the commander of the Hamas battalion in Jabalia, and a number of other resistance members, according to the Israeli army. However, the strike left the bodies of at least 126 people under the rubble, making it one of the deadliest attacks in the Gaza war, according to Air Wars, a non-profit organization affiliated with the University of London that investigates civilian casualties in conflict zones.
The investigation indicated that a combination of deliberate tactics and unintended consequences contributed to one of the deadliest explosions in the Gaza war.
The newspaper’s investigation quoted a former Israeli national security advisor that Hamas now feels confident enough to reject any deal that does not directly achieve victory for it, and that the conditions under which Israeli forces operate have become more difficult than they were in the past, while things have improved for Hamas fighters.
Earlier, officers from the Southern Command of the Israeli occupation army acknowledged the failure of a plan drawn up earlier to eliminate the tunnel network belonging to the Hamas movement.
The Israeli occupation army accused Hamas of placing its leadership headquarters under the Shifa Medical Complex, which is the largest hospital in the Gaza Strip, and said that there are several complexes under the floor of the Shifa Complex that Hamas leaders use to direct the movement’s activities, adding that there is a tunnel that reaches the hospital and allows entry to the Hamas leadership headquarters, Not by admission to the hospital.
Hamas denied these Israeli accusations and said they were an excuse for the occupation to justify its massacres.
The occupation continues to target residential areas and health facilities under the pretext of eliminating the Hamas movement, but since the 7th of last October, the Israeli aggression has resulted in the death of more than 20,000 Palestinian civilians, 54,000 wounded, most of them children and women, massive destruction of infrastructure, and an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe. unprecedented, according to the sector authorities and the United Nations.