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“It was made to look like a hospital, and patients were brought there just for appearances,” Master Sgt. (Res.) G. said.... During interrogations by IDF investigators, soldiers learned that senior Hamas operatives were running the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Jabaliya, Gaza, and planned to escape from the hospital during the IDF raid there last Friday using ambulances, Unit 504 investigators revealed to N12 in an interview published Thursday. The Kamal Adwan Hospital was raided last Friday by the IDF and Shin Bet, who arrested more than 240 terrorists, some of whom participated in the October 7 massacre.... “We understood that...

Inside the operation to take Kamal Adwan hospital; IDF soldier killed; Hamas fires 5 rockets into Israel; 17 in Syria killed by Israeli airstrike - report The IDF said on Sunday that - if ordered - it will prolong keeping Jabalya cut-off from Gaza City. While both Jabalya and Gaza City are broadly part of northern Gaza, Jabalya, along with Beit Hanun and Beit Lahiya, are part of the northernmost half of northern Gaza, which has been progressively emptied of most Palestinian terrorists and civilians alike since early October. In early October, tens of thousands of Palestinians were evacuated to...

The remaining terrorists in the northern Gaza Strip had gathered in Jabalya, prompting the military to encircle the area. The IDF's military operation in Jabalya in the northern Gaza Strip came as a surprise to the terrorists in the area, the military said on Monday. “The surprise for Hamas was complete. We trapped hundreds of terrorists inside the camp, including senior operatives," the IDF said, adding that the terror group had used the population as human shields for over a week and had shot at the legs of residents who attempted to escape. According to the IDF, the remaining terrorists...

In a rare occurrence, the George Soros-funded anti-Israel Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday admitted Hamas was guilty of committing war crimes during its May conflict with Israel by indiscriminately firing thousands of terror rockets toward Israeli population centers. The attacks “flagrantly violated” the laws of war, the New York-based group said in its report. The report also acknowledged Israel’s claim that Palestinian rockets and mortars had misfired, and landed within Gaza, killing and injuring an unknown number of Palestinians. According to the report, one rocket that had fallen short above the city of Jabalya killed seven civilians and injured...

A U.N. official in Gaza said a school where dozens of Palestinians were killed by tank shells on Tuesday was clearly marked with a U.N. flag and its location had been reported to Israeli authorities. John Ging, director of operations in Gaza for UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, said the death toll in the Israeli artillery strike near the school in Jabalya refugee camp was 30 dead with another 55 people injured.

At least 30 people were reportedly killed and 53 wounded in an explosion in a UN-run school in the town of Jabalya in the northern Gaza Strip, according to Palestinians. The IDF issued a statement saying the school grounds were used by terrorists to fire mortar shells at the troops. According to the IDF, among the dead were members of a Hamas launching cell, including operatives Immad Abu Askar and Hassan Abu Askar. Slideshow: Troops inside Gaza The infantrymen returned mortar shell fire into the school grounds, the army said. Defense officials told The Associated Press that booby-trapped bombs in...

ten-year-old Palestinian girl was killed Saturday when an explosion ripped through her home in the Jabalya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, hospital officials said. Residents said Ibtihal Abu Daher was killed when a Palestinian rocket inadvertently hit her house. Her 11-year old brother Ihab was also wounded in the explosion. The Israel Defense Forces said there were no troops in the area at the time. Militants often fire homemade Qassam rockets and mortar shells from the camp into southern Israel. A mortar shell which militants fired Saturday evening landed in Palestinian territory in the northern West Bank. In...