Watch a live view of the Rafah border crossing on Wednesday 1 November after the Palestinian border authority said injured Gazans are to enter Egypt.
Palestinians who were injured in Gaza will complete their treatment in Egyptian hospitals, with the country taking in 81 seriously wounded people, according to reports.
The Israeli military has admitted to launching a wide-scale airstrike on the densely inhabited Jabalia refugee camp, where potentially “dozens” of civilians have been killed.
The Israel Defence Forces said it targeted Hamas infrastructure in the area “that had taken over civilian buildings” and that tunnels under the buildings had collapsed in the strike.
At a briefing attended by The Independent, IDF officials said eliminating Hamas commander Ibrahim Biari justified the bombing.
The “military objective was of high importance”, lieutenant colonel Jonathan Conricus, an IDF spokesperson, said at the briefing.
“Multiple Hamas operatives were killed.”
Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem denied any senior commander was in the Jabalia camp at the time of the Israeli strike.
