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IDF forces have found a secret Hamas battle plan in the town of Jabalia, showing all Hamas defensive positions and tunnels in the entire area of Jabalia and Northern Gaza. Israeli forces have been using this secret plan to prepare the next phase of offensives further into the city. Israeli forces have held a hard defense in central Gaza. Israeli forces have been engaging in light fighting in the West Bank, and also in Northern Israel.

Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesperson Daniel Hagari is giving a televised news conference, where he said the Israeli military “managed to eliminate the terrorist murderer Ibrahim Biari” on Tuesday. Biari was “the main leader of combat” since Israel forces entered northern Gaza, Hagari said. During his “elimination, many terrorists were killed,” he said. He said the targeting of the building where Biari was in also “led to the collapse of other things because there was a very extensive infrastructure there”. A witness to the Israeli airstrike on the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza told CNN he saw an F-16...

Video and still images shows people searching for survivors under rubbleRescuers searched for survivors in the rubble of a building at the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza on Tuesday after Israeli airstrikes on the area. The director of Gaza's Indonesian Hospital, which is located near Jabalia, told Al Jazeera more than 50 Palestinians were killed and 150 wounded in the airstrikes. Video and still images depicted Palestinians searching for people potentially alive and trapped under debris and rubble. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military...

Defense Minister Benny Gantz expressed sorrow on behalf of Israel for the deadly Gaza fire and stated that the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) offered humanitarian assistance to the Palestinian leadership in the evacuation of hurt civilians. "Israel will be right to help the residents of Gaza who were harmed, in order to save lives," Gantz wrote on Twitter.