イスラエルの空爆で子ら１７人死亡　包囲下のガザ・ジャバリア

【イスラエルＡＦＰ＝時事】パレスチナ自治区ガザ地区を実効支配するイスラム組織ハマスの民間防衛機関は６日、北部ジャバリアがイスラエル軍の空爆を受け、少なくとも１７人が死亡したと発表した。一方イスラエル軍は、ハマスの再編成を防ぐため同地を包囲し、戦闘員数十人を殺害したとしている。（写真は、イスラエル軍による避難勧告を受け、パレスチナ自治区ガザ地区ジャバリアからガザ市に逃れてきた子ども）
　イスラエル軍は７日、ハマスが態勢立て直しを図っている兆候があったため、ジャバリアを包囲したと発表。地上部隊を支援するため、「数十の軍事目標」を空爆したと明かした。
　ハマスの民間防衛当局の広報担当者は、ジャバリアが夜間に複数回の攻撃を受けたと説明。「９人の子どもを含む１７人の殉教者が出た」と主張した。
　ＡＦＰＴＶの映像には、血に染まった白い布に覆われた複数の遺体が地面に並べられたり、担架で運ばれたりする様子が映っている。
　イスラエル軍は、今回の作戦でこれまでに武装勢力の戦闘員数十人が「排除された」と説明。過去１日間で「手りゅう弾、弾薬、爆発物など多数の武器を発見したほか、テロリストと近接戦闘を行った」としている。
　一方、ハマスの民間防衛当局は、中部デイルアルバラフで６日、避難所となっていたモスクがイスラエル軍の空爆を受けたことに伴う犠牲者数が２６人となったと明らかにした。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2024/10/07-17:13）

Gaza's civil defence agency said on Sunday that Israeli air strikes in Jabaliya killed at least 17 people as Israeli forces said they had surrounded the area to prevent Hamas from regrouping and killed dozens of militants.
Following a year of fighting after Hamas's unprecedented October 7 attack on Israel, large swathes of Gaza have been reduced to rubble as the Israeli army aimed to completely destroy the militant group.
But in recent months, troops have returned to several areas across the Palestinian territory where they had previously conducted operations against Hamas, only to find militants regrouping.
The Israeli military said Sunday its forces surrounded the Jabaliya area of northern Gaza in response to indications that Hamas was rebuilding despite nearly a year of strikes and fighting.
The troops of the 401st Brigade and the 460th Brigade have successfully encircled the area and are currently continuing to operate in the area, the military said in a statement on Sunday.
It cited intelligence suggesting the presence of terrorists and terror infrastructure in the area of Jabaliya... as well as efforts by Hamas to rebuild its operational capabilities in the area.
Israeli aircraft struck dozens of military targets in support of ground troops, it said.
Hamas-run Gaza's civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal said multiple strikes rocked Jabaliya overnight.
There are 17 martyrs, including nine children, in Israeli air strikes in Jabaliya, he said.
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AFPTV footage showed several bodies in blood-stained white shrouds laid out on the ground and some being carried away on stretchers for burial.
The military said dozens of militants had been eliminated in the operation so far.
Over the past day, the troops located numerous weapons in the area, including grenades, munitions, and explosive devices and engaged in several close-quarter encounters with terrorists, it added.
Residents said the Israeli military had targeted the area with heavy bombardment.
The shelling is random and violent in multiple directions and we do not know where the shelling is coming from and we do not know where to go, Gaza resident Jameel al-Habibi told AFP.
Khaled al-Hawajri, a resident of northern Gaza, said the relentless air strikes reminded him of the first days of the war.
We couldn't leave the house. Anyone who tried to go out was targeted by the drones, Hawajri, 46, told AFP.
Every now and then we are forced to evacuate the area, running without taking anything with us due to the intensity of the shelling.
We are truly tired. This is the 10th time I have left my home... We don't know when or if we will ever return, Hawajri added.
Israeli forces have regularly targeted Jabaliya since the Gaza war began, displacing most residents.
The military said it was also expanding the humanitarian area in Al-Mawasi along the coastline in southern Gaza.
For this purpose, two humanitarian evacuation routes from northern Gaza have been reopened: one along the Salaheddine road and the other along the Al-Rashid coastal road, the military said.
Gaza's civil defence agency meanwhile said an Israeli air strike on a mosque-turned-shelter on Sunday in central Deir al-Balah killed 26 people. Israel's military said it had targeted Hamas militants.
The number of martyrs brought to hospitals as a result of the occupation's targeting of displaced people in the Ibn Rushd school and Al Aqsa Martyrs mosque reached 26, with several more wounded, a health ministry statement said.
Israel's military said it had conducted a precise strike on Hamas terrorists who were operating within a command and control centre at the mosque.
The war in Gaza broke out after Hamas militants attacked Israel on October 7, resulting in the deaths of 1,205 people, most of them civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures that include hostages killed in captivity.
Israel's retaliatory military offensive has killed at least 41,870 people in Gaza, the majority of them civilians, according to figures provided by the Hamas-run territory's health ministry and described as reliable by the UN.