WATCH: IDF strikes Islamic University in Gaza, says it was being used as a Hamas training camp

The Islamic University in Gaza has allegedly been reduced to dust by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), who claim it was being “used as a Hamas training camp for military intelligence operatives.” “A short while ago, IDF fighter jets struck an important operational and military centre for the Hamas terrorist organisation in the Gaza Strip - the Islamic University,” according to an update issued by the IDF.

Hamas transformed an institute of knowledge into an institute of destruction.

A short while ago, the IDF struck an important Hamas operational, political and military center in Gaza—the Islamic University.

Hamas transformed a university into a training camp for weapons… pic.twitter.com/pWKxR8Dhmd

— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) October 11, 2023

It claimed that in addition to hosting conferences to collect money for its operations, the facility was also utilized for the research and manufacture of weapons. “The university maintained close ties with the senior leadership of Hamas.” Israel bombarded the Gaza Strip with hundreds of air strikes overnight, resulting in at least 30 fatalities and hundreds of injuries, a Hamas administration spokesman told AFP on Wednesday. According to Salama Marouf, the head of the government’s communications office, dozens of homes, factories, mosques, and stores were damaged. The Israeli military acknowledged that it had attacked a number of Hamas targets overnight. It claimed that “advanced detection systems” utilized by Hamas to locate armed planes were destroyed by fighter jets. In addition, they struck 80 Hamas targets in the Beit Hanoun region of the northern Gaza Strip, including two bank branches that the Islamist movement allegedly used to “fund terrorism” there, according to the military. The militant organization Islamic Jihad’s operational command center and a weapons storage site were also targeted by airstrikes, it was claimed.