IDF playing dumb.
Israeli military “trying to understand” why so many were in Beit Lahiya during deadly strike
People search through the rubble of a building after an Israeli strike in Beit Lahia, Gaza on October 29
The Israeli military says it is “trying to understand” why so many people were in Beit Lahiya at the time of its strike that, according to Palestinian authorities, killed more than 90 people.
At least 93 people, including 25 children, were killed in the strike on a multi-story building on Tuesday, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza. It is thought to be one of the deadliest strikes of Israel’s recent bombing campaign on northern Gaza and has been condemned by human rights groups and NGOs.
But David Avraham, a spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), told CNN the military was still “trying to understand” why so many people were in the area at the time of the strike, saying that civilians had been ordered to evacuate “several weeks ago.”
Israeli forces were attacking a “suspected terrorist” they had spotted in the area and did not intend to “collapse the building,” Avraham said, before adding that the military is investigating what happened.
During a briefing last week, Brig. Gen. Elad Goren, head of the IDF’s civil-humanitarian efforts in Gaza, said that “as we understand, there is no population” in Beit Lahiya.
UN Human Rights Office spokesperson Jeremy Laurence said the UN was “appalled” by the strike, which he called “one of the deadliest single attacks in Gaza in nearly three months.” Noting Israel’s commitment to investigating the strike, the UN stressed the need for “a prompt, transparent and detailed investigation into the circumstances of this strike and responsibilities for it.”
There are still about 100,000 people trapped in the North. The IDF knows this full well as they're going door to door to throw people on the street who then get chased and shot at by quadcopters. People are afraid to leave, they have nowhere to go.
Israeli soldiers forced Palestinian men to strip down as they evacuated war-torn Jabalya
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Jabalia detainees. CNN has added blur to this photo to protect identities.
The photo shows a large crowd of more than 200 people, crouching low amid the rubble of Jabalya in northern Gaza. Mostly men, many are almost naked, some are elderly, some visibly wounded. There’s at least one child among them.
They were detained and most ordered to strip by the Israeli military as they tried to flee their homes in Jabalya refugee camp, then held for hours outdoors in the cold, witnesses told CNN.
Their tired faces give a glimpse into their misery. The men at the front are anxiously staring straight ahead, while those toward the back stretch their necks to see what is going on.
The photo, taken in Jabalya on Friday, shows residents of the refugee camp who tried to leave the area after being forced by the Israeli military to evacuate amid its ongoing ground operation there.
The photo was first shared on an Israeli Telegram channel; while it is unclear who took it, several of the men in the picture told CNN Israeli soldiers were photographing them as they were being detained.
CNN has identified and spoken to five individuals seen in the photograph. One of them, Muhannad Khalaf, said he, his wife and their infant son were trying to escape the camp using a designated safe corridor when the Israeli military stopped them.
“These people were looking for something to eat.” Israeli strike kills 5 at Gaza market
Video obtained by CNN shows the chaotic aftermath of Israeli airstrikes that killed at least five people at Gaza City’s most popular food market on Tuesday.
The footage shows large crowds of civilians running through the Al-Sahaba Market in the densely populated Al-Daraj neighborhood after two strikes hit a shop and several stalls around 3:30 p.m. (9:30 a.m. ET).
Large piles of debris and rubble on blood-spattered streets can be seen as vendors scramble to retrieve goods from their stalls and shoppers flee.
“All of sudden, we realized missiles were falling on top of people. People were in the market; it was a packed market,” a male bystander says in the footage. “These people are innocent civilians, they are not Hamas.”
At least five people were killed by the strikes, according to medical staff at the Al Ahli Baptist Hospital, where the injured are being treated.
“These people were looking for something to eat and [to] live, and they were killed and injured,” another male bystander says in the footage. CNN has reached out to the Israeli military for comment.
