The Jabalia refugee camp was set up in 1948 to house Palestinians displaced after the Nakba or catastrophe, referring to the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948. More than 750,000 Palestinians were forcefully displaced, leading up to the birth of Israel in 1948.
In the north of the Palestinian enclave, it was the Gaza Strip’s most populated refugee camp.
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In the first few weeks of Israel’s war on Gaza, it was struck multiple times by Israeli forces, including a strike on a UN-run school where thousands of displaced Palestinians had been sheltering. The Health Ministry in Gaza at the time had said more than 50 people were killed in the attack and 150 were wounded.
The Israeli military said the attack targeted Hamas fighters and claimed that dozens had been killed in a “vast underground tunnel complex” under the camp.
In December, an Israeli attack on the camp killed at least 90 Palestinians. The camp was left in ruins by intense Israeli bombardment in the initial phase of the war.
In early February 2024, Israeli forces withdrew from the northern parts of the Strip with claims that it had destroyed Hamas as a fighting force in the northern areas.
On Saturday, the Israeli military issued evacuation orders to residents of the Jabalia Refugee Camp, telling them to leave “immediately” so it could launch military operations against Hamas despite earlier claims to have defeated the Palestinian group in northern Gaza.
People survey the destruction at the Jabalia refugee camp, following Israeli attack on the enclave on October 14, 2023 [File: Reuters]
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