The UN Human Rights Office uses harsh words about the attacks on X/formerly Twitter. – We are seriously concerned that the attacks against the Jabalia refugee camp are disproportionate attacks that can be called war crimes. We think in particular of the high number of civilian victims and the extent of damage following the airstrikes from Israel. Photo: Screenshot from X TV channel Al Jazeera has published a video showing extensive destruction after today’s attack. The refugee camp was also exposed to air strikes on Tuesday, 31 October. According to the Hamas-controlled health authorities in Gazatripa, dozens of people have been killed in today’s attack. Aid workers say, according to the AFP news agency, that whole families must have been killed in the attack on Wednesday. In a video published by news, we see a man holding up a list of names, saying 15 close family members have been killed. The UN Secretary-General condemns the attacks on the Jabalia refugee camp, both on Tuesday and Wednesday. Rockets over Gaza seen from Sderot in Israel on Wednesday evening. Attacked two days in a row Also yesterday, the Jabalia refugee camp was attacked from the air, the largest refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. The AFP news channel then reported at least 47 dead and several hundred wounded. Yesterday, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed that they were behind the air attack on the Jabalia camp, and they said in a statement that the aim of the attack was to hit a high-ranking Hamas officer. No one has so far claimed responsibility for the attack today. This is what it looked like in the Jabalia refugee camp after the attack on Wednesday 1 November. Photo: STRINGER / Reuters Raised in the Jabalia camp news has been in contact with Yousef Hammash who works as an aid worker for the Norwegian Refugee Council in the Gaza Strip. He himself grew up in the Jabalia camp and says the attack on Tuesday happened in the heart of the camp. – My whole family, my father, my grandfather and I have lived in the Jabalia camp all our lives, he says to news. He himself fled south with his wife and children before the attacks on Tuesday and Wednesday. This is how he describes the camp where he grew up: – Jabalia is a concrete block. The houses are close together, the roads are less than half a meter wide. The place they bombed is the heart of the camp, in the middle of the camp. Most people know that Gaza is one of the most densely populated places on earth. Jabalia and the area that was bombed is the most densely populated place in Gaza, says Hammash. Verified images The editors at Faktisk Verifiserbar, which consists of journalists from several Norwegian media houses, have checked that the images we publish from Telegram in this case match the location. The picture shows the destruction after air strikes on Wednesday 1 November. The image has been verified by Faktisk.no. Photo: Telegram They write “The images correspond to the content of the Arab TV channels on their live broadcasts on Wednesday at 12 o’clock. The incident took place in the refugee camp and the images show the location. We are working to verify the exact location in the refugee camp.” Asked to go south Jabalia is on the outskirts of Gaza City, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, which Israel has tried to empty of residents ahead of the ground invasion. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have nevertheless remained in their homes in Gaza City. In recent days, there have been reports that Israeli forces are trying to besiege Gaza City, as well as block the road to the south so that it becomes impossible to travel between the northern and southern parts of the Gaza Strip.
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