Israel claims to have killed a Hamas commander in attack on humanitarian zone in Gaza that killed 90 people International

The Israeli army has assured this Sunday that a Hamas official named Rafa Salama was among those killed in the bombing of the humanitarian camp area in Gaza on Saturday, in the Khan Younis area, in which at least 90 people were killed. This is one of the lieutenants of Mohammed Deif, the head of the group’s armed wing in the Strip, who, as Israeli authorities believed, was the real target of one of the worst attacks against the population by the occupation troops of the war. . Salama was also accused of participating in the attack on Israeli territory in which Hamas killed about 1,200 people on October 7, according to the Israeli army justifying a bombing with so many deaths.

Despite everything, what is known as the Islamic Resistance Movement has said that contacts will be maintained with Israel to try to reach a ceasefire agreement. This was one of the most unknown ones after the attack carried out in the Al Mawasi area, where thousands of people forcibly displaced by the Israeli army from various areas of the Palestinian territory in southern Gaza live. Israeli sources confirmed to Kan public television that negotiations will continue in the coming days in Doha (Qatar).

In the profile of the killed man published by the Israeli army, it is added that Salama was a key player in the infamous kidnapping of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in 2006, who was released after five years of captivity in the Strip in exchange for more than a thousand Palestinian prisoners who left Israeli jails in 2011. In addition, says the military spokesman on the social network X, it played a key role in the expansion of the tunnel system used by radicals throughout the Strip. He adds, “His elimination means causing significant damage to the military functioning of the Hamas terrorist organization.”

Meanwhile, the army has not stopped bombing other areas of the Strip. This Sunday, at least 12 people were killed after an attack in the Nuseirat camp on a school of the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), which was hosting hundreds of displaced people. As on previous occasions, the army defended that attack because, they claim, those facilities were being used by Hamas members. “Prior to the attack, numerous efforts were made to minimize harm to civilians, including the use of precision weapons and increased intelligence gathering. Hamas is systematically violating international law while brutally exploiting civilian institutions and using the population as human shields,” they said in a statement.

Ronen Bar, the head of Israel’s internal secret services (Shin Bet), has said that the assassination attempt on Mohammed Deif was the result of a “precise intelligence” operation, the newspaper reports. Haaretz. During a meeting with the military about the state of war, Bar said that 25 Hamas members who took part in the October 7 massacre have been killed in Gaza this week.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admitted late Saturday that he was not sure whether Deif was killed in the attack that he himself witnessed from a distance. He did not confirm the death of any Hamas member in his appearance before Israeli media in Tel Aviv. He wanted to make it clear that, beyond what is being negotiated in Doha or Cairo, his objective is to eliminate any military capability of Hamas, despite the doubts that achieving this raises in his own army, and to bring back all the hostages I can alive.

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The prime minister said that “one way or another,” Israel will remove all Hamas leaders. He also assured that his forces would maintain control of what is known as the Philadelphia corridor, which runs along the border between Gaza and Egypt, despite the fact that some negotiators have reported that options are being studied.

Illegal strikes

Israel and Hamas accuse each other of using civilians as human shields, which is against international law. Even with local Hamas elements, as Israel argues, international humanitarian law requires acting under the principles of distinction, proportionality and precaution. This means that attacks where civilians and combatants cannot be distinguished are illegal; where the proportion of civilians is higher than combatants, and, furthermore, these operations must be carried out at a time when the least possible damage to the population can be caused. The bombings on Saturday are no exception and follow a pattern that marks the line in which the Jewish state’s forces usually operate in Gaza.

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