(26 Dec 2023)
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View of Gaza Strip from Southern Israel - 26 December 2023
1. Various of smoke billowing over northern Gaza skyline, UPSOUND explosions
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Heavy smoke rose from the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, as Israeli forces bombarded the territory in apparent preparation to expand their ground offensive.
The opening of a potential new battle zone in central Gaza points to the long and destructive road still ahead as Israel vows to crush Hamas after its Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel.
For weeks, Israeli forces have been engaged in heavy urban fighting in northern Gaza and in the southern city of Khan Younis, driving Palestinians into further smaller corners of territory in search of refuge.
Despite international pressure for a cease-fire and U.S. calls for a reduction in civilian casualties, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday warned that the fight “isn’t close to finished.”
Residents of central Gaza on Tuesday described a night of shelling and airstrikes shaking the Nuseirat, Maghazi and Bureij camps.
The camps are built-up towns, housing Palestinians driven from their homes in what is now Israel during the 1948 war and their descendants –- and now also crowded with people who fled from the north.
Israel’s offensive has been one of the most devastating military campaigns in recent history.
More than 20,600 Palestinians, two-thirds of them women and children, have been killed, according to the Health Ministry in Gaza, which does not differentiate between civilians and combatants among the dead.
AP video shot by: Alon Bernstein, Andrea Rosa
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