Israel claims Hamas command in northern Gaza has been destroyed

The Israeli army says it has finished taking apart Hamas’s leadership in the northern Gaza Strip.

Army representative Daniel Hagari said that Palestinian fighters are now only active in the area occasionally and without leaders.

He said Israel had killed about 8,000 fighters in northern Gaza. The BBC cannot confirm this number by themselves.

The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) are working to stop Hamas in the southern and central parts of Gaza.

According to the health ministry run by Hamas, Israel has killed more than 22,000 people since the war started. On Saturday, it reported that there were over 120 deaths in the last day.

The land has been destroyed and almost all of the 2. 3 million people have been forced to leave.

Israel’s attack began after gunmen from Hamas surprised attacked southern Israel on 7 October. They killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took about 240 people as hostages.

More than 120 people are still there after some were let go in a truce last year.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said again on Saturday that Israel will keep fighting to get rid of Hamas, bring back our hostages, and make sure Gaza can’t hurt Israel anymore.

We have to set aside everything. Mr Netanyahu said in a statement that they will keep fighting until they win completely.

At the same time, six people from Palestine died when Israeli soldiers attacked the city of Jenin in the West Bank, according to the Palestinian health ministry. Palestinian news reported that a lot of Israeli soldiers went to the area for the raid.

Apart from the raid, Israeli planes also bombed a group of people in the West Bank. This happened after an Israeli military vehicle hit a bomb and one officer died.

Jenin has experienced many Israeli attacks in the last 18 months, and they have gotten worse since the war in Gaza began on 7 October.

In the north of Israel, Hezbollah shot many rockets at Israel on Saturday. They said it was to retaliate for the killing of a Hamas leader in Beirut.

Saleh al-Arouri was killed in a possible attack by Israel in the capital of Lebanon.

The Iranian-supported Lebanese group says it attacked an air traffic control center in Meron with 62 rockets. The Israeli army said it saw about 40 rockets being fired from Lebanon and it fired back.

Antony Blinken, the US Secretary of State, said he wants to make sure the fighting in Gaza doesn’t spread and to stop a never-ending cycle of violence.

Mr Blinken was talking in Greece at the beginning of a trip that will last for a week in the area. He went to Jordan and will meet King Abdullah on Sunday. Then he will go to Qatar.