‘Total chaos’ in Gaza after Israel’s heaviest night of bombing yet

The BBC’s Rushdi Abualouf, reporting from Gaza, says the north of the Strip was hit overnight “on a scale we’ve never seen before”. Israel’s military said it was intensifying its bombing of Gaza and that its ground forces were “expanding operations”. It says that overnight it hit 150 Hamas targets and killed the head of Hamas’s paraglider operations during the group’s attack on Israel on 7 October.

Hamas says clashes have taken place in northern Gaza – reports say some Israeli troops and tanks have entered the Strip. Communication networks went down around the same time, meaning residents in Gaza can’t be contacted. The UN General Assembly called for an immediate humanitarian truce, with 120 states voting for a resolution put forward by Jordan.

Israel has been bombing Gaza since the 7 October Hamas attacks that killed 1,400 people and saw 229 people kidnapped as hostages. The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says 7,000 people have been killed since Israel’s retaliatory bombing began.

Source: BBC

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