The Israel-Hamas war

Hospital director: At least 80 dead in second attack on Jabalia  

At least 80 people died and hundreds were injured when Israel bombed the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip for the second day in a row on Wednesday. This is what Atef Al Kahlout, head of the Indonesian Hospital in Gaza, told CNN.

  

He adds that bodies are still being dug up and that the majority of victims are women and children.

   

AFP news agency video footage showed at least 47 dead bodies after Tuesday's first bombing. Gaza's Hamas-led government said on Thursday that a total of 195 people had been killed in the two attacks on Jabalia. 

  

Israel's airstrikes against Jabalia have been condemned by, among others, the UN and the EU. 

 

The Israeli military, the IDF, said the attacks targeted an underground Hamas military complex and that several high-ranking commanders within the terrorist group were killed. 

 

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Analysis: Rapid advancement - but the next phase will be difficult 

Israel's defense force, the IDF, has quickly advanced to Gaza City during its offensive in the area, notes both SVT's correspondent Samir Abu Eid and Sky News' Sean Bell.  

 

- The fact that Israel has advanced so quickly is due to the fact that militarily they are completely superior to Hamas, and Israel has constantly bombarded targets in Gaza, says Abu Eid and states that the war is "very brutal and bloody". 

 

Sean Bell says that the majority of the area that the Israeli defenses have penetrated consists of fields and green areas and that it is not particularly surprising that Israel has advanced so quickly.  

 

When the fighting reaches Gaza, however, Israel can expect "a completely different situation," notes Bell, who adds that the defenders almost always have the upper hand in urban battles.  

 

- It will be a very difficult next phase. But before that we will see how Israel forms itself like a steel ring around the city, after that we will see a huge escalation, he says. 

 

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Task: Russian Wagner can send weapons to Hezbollah  

The Russian paramilitary Wagner Group may send air defense systems to the Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah, US sources told the WSJ. 

 

It is not clear how far the talks between Wagner and Hezbollah have progressed, but according to the information, it is about the SA-22 weapon system that Wagner is ready to send.  

 

The US is said to be following developments closely and the potential delivery is described as "a big problem".