Jerusalem, Oct 7 (EFE).- Israeli announced Monday it had launched an attack against targets throughout the Gaza Strip including a bombing of a hospital, on the anniversary of the Hamas extremist attack in Israel.
Avichay Adraee, the army’s Arabic-language spokesman, said on social media platform X that Israel attacked Hamas missile platforms and “terrorist targets” throughout the Gaza Strip to “thwart immediate threats,” including a rocket that was intercepted.
It also said fighter jets bombed Hamas targets in Gaza, hours after the army announced it had carried out a “precise attack” against an alleged operations center of the Islamist group inside the “Shuhada al-Alqsa” hospital in the Gaza Strip.
“A short while ago, with the direction of (army) and (Israeli Security Agency) intelligence, the (Israel Air Force) conducted a precise strike on Hamas terrorists who were operating inside command and control centers embedded within the Shuhada al-Aqsa Hospital in the area of Deir al Balah,” said an army statement in the early hours of Monday.
It said the centers were used by Hamas operatives to plan and execute attacks against Israel, adding that they carried out measures to mitigate the harm to civilians before the strike.
It is not yet known whether there are casualties or the damage caused by the strike.
These come after the Israeli army launched a new incursion Sunday in Yabalia, in the north of the Gaza Strip after detecting the presence of “terrorists and infrastructure in the area” as well as efforts by Hamas “to rebuild its operational capabilities” it said in a statement.
At least 45 Palestinians were killed and another 256 were injured Sunday in Gaza, after Israel bombed another school and a mosque also in Deir al Balah with at least 26 dead. This raised the number of deaths since Oct. 7 to 41,870 and the number of wounded to 97,166, according to the health ministry.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday at a meeting with soldiers deployed on the country’s northern front, close to the border with Lebanon, that Israel is “changing reality from one extreme to the other.”
“A year ago we suffered a terrible blow. In the last 12 months, we are changing reality from one extreme to the other,” he said.
Israel commemorates Monday the first anniversary of the Hamas massacre that started the war and left 1,200 dead and 251 kidnapped. Almost 100 remain held, with a series of events, in the midst of an escalation in the region and with negotiations for a truce in Gaza blocked. EFE
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