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Airstrikes flatten blocks of Gaza refugee camp, bringing rage, grief and a perilous new phase of war

The health ministry in the Hamas- run Gaza Strip said at least 50 people were killed on Oct. 31 in Israeli bombardment of the refugee camp in the Palestinian territory.

TEL AVIV, Israel — Vast bomb craters and rubble-filled moonscapes, buildings turned to concrete skeletons, hoarse shouts of grief and rage: The thunderous Israeli airstrikes that hit the Gaza Strip’s biggest refugee camp on Tuesday, killing or wounding hundreds, signaled a perilous new phase of Israel’s war with Hamas.

The airborne assault on Jabalia refugee camp appeared to be among the deadliest localized bombardments since the war began this month following devastating Hamas attacks inside Israel. Over the last five days, intensifying ground confrontations have taken hold as well, both sides said, spreading into Hamas’ formidable network of subterranean passageways.

“It was a waterfall of casualties,” said Marwan Sultan, medical director of the Indonesian Hospital, said of the Jabalia strike. He described a desperate arriving by

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