Israel-Hamas War Update | Israeli soldiers standing on the border surrounding Gaza city, Hamas said – 195 people were killed in the attack on the refugee camp.

Israeli troops continued their offensive against Hamas in Gaza on Wednesday (local time) as they moved deeper into the Palestinian enclave’s main city, The Times of Israel reports. On the other hand, Hamas, the group that controls Gaza, said 195 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks on the territory’s largest refugee camp.

The Israeli military said it breached Hamas’ “front line of defense” and announced it had killed a commander of the terrorist group’s anti-tank missile group. The Hamas-run office in Gaza claimed that at least 195 Palestinians were killed after Israel bombed Gaza’s Jabaliya refugee camp on Tuesday and Wednesday, news agency Reuters reported.

Here are the key developments in the Israel-Hamas war, which has now entered its 27th day-

-Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said the ground operation in Gaza is progressing as planned.

-The Times of Israel quoted Hagari as saying, “With advance planning, precise intelligence and combined attacks (by land, air and sea), our forces broke through Hamas’s front lines of defense in the north of the Gaza Strip.”

-IDF Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Harzi Halevi acknowledged that the war against Hamas was “a heavy and painful price”, but said it was “necessary”. He reiterated that it would be a “long war” and Israeli troops said it was in an advanced stage of fighting.

-Halevi said We are in the middle of a war. This will be a long war and we will fight it till the end. We are active and fighting the enemy in our own territory, killing them at the very places where they worked on their plans and in the same areas where the evil terrorists came from.

-Iran-backed Yemen’s Houthi rebels have claimed to have launched several drones towards Israel. The Houthis, who have joined the Israel-Hamas war, said they would launch their own military operations “in support” of the Palestinian people, The Times of Israel reported.

-The IDF has not confirmed any such drone attacks by the Houthis.

The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza claimed “dozens” of people were killed and injured in a second Israeli attack in Jabaliya. Jabaliya is the location where the refugee camp was bombed by Israel, which said several Hamas militants were killed in the operation.

-The number of casualties could not be confirmed, nor were the claims of the terrorist group. More than 50 Palestinians and 150 others were injured in Israel’s heavy bombardment of a refugee camp on Tuesday and Wednesday.

– Meanwhile, US President Joe Biden thanked the Egyptian and Qatar governments for helping Palestinians and foreign nationals, including US citizens, flee Gaza and enter Egypt through the Rafah crossing.

-Biden said during a visit to Northfield, Minnesota, “I personally spent a lot of time talking with Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel and President Sisi of Egypt and others to make sure that we get people out To be able to open this access to get out.”

– He said, “I want to thank our partners, especially Qatar, who worked closely with us to support negotiations to facilitate the departure of these citizens.”

– The IDF said it killed Muhammad Essar, the head of Hamas’ anti-tank missile unit in Gaza. Sharing an update on its

-The tweet said, “Under his command, numerous anti-tank missile attacks were carried out against civilians and IDF soldiers.”

-The commander of the IDF’s 162nd Division, Brigadier General Itzik Cohen, said ground forces were moving deeper into the Gaza Strip and said they were “at the gates of Gaza City.” “Hamas has chosen this war, not Israel,” he said, adding that operations were continuing to “eliminate” the terrorist group.

– As a humanitarian crisis looms in Gaza, 61 aid trucks entered the Palestinian territory through the Rafah crossing with Egypt, The Times of Israel reports. The trucks contained food, water and medical supplies. It came as Egypt on Wednesday allowed Palestinians from Gaza and some foreign nationals to leave the besieged territory for the first time since the war began on October 7.

– More than 8,700 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza and the West Bank since the war began on October 7, while more than 1,400 have died in Israel.