The FDI and Shin Bet said an air strike in northern Jabalia de Gaza on Thursday targeting a group of Islamic jihad agents in Hamas and Palestinian jihad in a command center used by terrorist groups.
The Palestinian media reported that the strike was aimed at the former Jabalia police station and that at least nine people had been killed.
According to the FDI, the site was used by terrorist agents to plan and carry out attacks on Israeli civilians and troops.
The FDI said it had taken measures to mitigate civil damage in the strike, in particular the use of “ammunition of precision, air surveillance and additional intelligence”.
“Terrorist organizations systematically violate international law while taking civil infrastructure, and while brutally exploiting the civilian population as a human shield for its terrorist attacks,” added the army.
The Civil Defense Agency Gaza managed by Hamas and the Palestinian doctors said that Israeli air strikes killed at least 25 people on Thursday, including a family of six whose house was struck in Gaza City.
The figures cannot be verified and do not make the difference between civilians and the agents of terrorism.
Nidal Al-Sarafiti, a family of the family, said that the strike had been made when the family was sleeping.
“What can I say? Destruction has spared no one,” he told AFP.
The Palestinians inspect the damage after an Israeli air strike at the Yaffa school in Gaza City, April 23, 2025.
Elsewhere, five people are said to have died when the tents in which they had looked for were affected.
Three people were killed, including a child in the city of Zuwaida in the center of Gaza, the civil defense said in a statement.
Two other people were reported in a strike in a house in the city in the south of Khan Younis.
“We were sitting in peace when the missile fell. I just don’t understand … what is happening,” said Mohammed Faris, who said he had witnessed the house strike.
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The strikes occurred while Israel continued to take military measures against Hamas and to deny the entry of the aid in the band in order to put pressure on the terrorist group to conclude an agreement to release the hostages.
At the end of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs late Wednesday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded to a joint statement from the United Kingdom, France and Germany, condemning Israel’s humanitarian aid blockade in Gaza, in a press release shared by the ministry spokesman, describing the declaration of “starting scandalous”.
“Israel fights Hamas, which steals humanitarian aid, uses it to rebuild its war machine and hides behind civilians,” said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, adding that it “categorically rejects the claim of” the politicization of humanitarian aid “as indicated in the E3 declaration”.
In the press release, the ministers of the three foreign nations called for the immediate resumption of deliveries of aid to the gang and criticized the recent comments on the issue of the Minister of Defense Israel Katz. They also called Israel to do more to protect Palestinian civilians in Gaza, that Hamas discloses the 59 remaining hostages, and so that all parties return to a cease-fire.
“Article 70 of the first additional protocol to Geneva Conventions requires aid when” the civilian population is not supplied, “added the Declaration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “During the 42-day ceasefire, 25,000 aid trucks entered Gaza. Israel monitors the situation on the ground, and there is no shortage of help in Gaza. ”
The trucks carrying humanitarian aid consist on the Egyptian side of the border crossing of Rafah with the Gaza strip on March 2, 2025 after Israel suspended the entrance to the supplies in the Palestinian enclave. (AFP)
“According to article 23 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, a team is not obliged to allow aid if it is” likely to help the military or economic efforts of the enemy “. Hamas has diverted humanitarian aid to rebuild its terrorist machine, “said the ministry.
Instead of mentioning that “Hamas is the one that targets Israeli civilians while hiding behind Palestinian civilians”, the three countries “have chosen to accuse Israel of strikes on humanitarian staff and health establishments – this is morally twisted and badly,” the press release said.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the FDIs “conduct in -depth and transparent investigations” in cases involving civilian victims, and says that “all convictions should address Hamas, which hides in hospitals and behind civilians”.
“The so-called balance that E3’s declaration is trying to create between Israel and Hamas is ethically scandalous,” continued the answer, affirming that the countries mention “only by passing the fact that Hamas still holds 59 hostages under inhuman conditions underground.”
“War can end tomorrow if the hostages are released and Hamas lay down its arms,” said the ministry.
A boy passes in front of a cart pulled on animals to cross a street near a tent camp in Gaza City on April 21, 2025. (Omar al-Qattaa / AFP)
The war began with the invasion of October 7, 2023, led by Hamas which killed more than 1,200 people and saw the removal of 251 hostages in Gaza. Fifty-nine of the 251 hostages remain in captivity, 24 of which would still be alive.
According to the Ministry of Health managed by Gaza, more than 51,000 people in the strip have been killed or are presumed to be dead in the fighting so far. The toll cannot be checked and does not make the difference between civilians and combatants.
Israel assesses that he killed around 20,000 fighters in Gaza in January, as well as some 1,600 terrorists inside Israel during the Hamas.
Israel’s toll in offensive and military operations on the ground of Gaza along the border is 410.
