IDF spokesperson confirms to CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that it was an Israeli strike that hit the Jabalia refugee camp.
At least 50 died in an Israeli airstrike at the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza. CNN’s Wolf Blizter asked an IDF spokesperson what happened, and he confirmed that it was an Israeli strike that hit the camp because “there was a very senior Hamas commander in that area. Sadly, he was hiding, again, as they do, behind, within civilians.”
Blizter asked if “Israel still went ahead and dropped a bomb there attempting to kill this Hamas commander, knowing that a lot of innocent civilians, men, women, and children, presumably, would be killed,” but the IDF spokesperson insisted that was not the case, that they were “still looking into it.”
He said the IDF has “been saying for days, move south,” meaning that civilians should leave the combat zone in northern Gaza. Blitzer pressed again, saying: “I'm just trying to get a little bit more information. You knew there were civilians there. You knew there were refugees, all sorts of refugees, but you decided to still drop a bomb on that refugee camp attempting to kill the Hamas commander.”
The IDF spokesperson reiterated that they were looking into the situation, but did confirm that the Hamas commander had been killed.
