Israel presses muchdeeper into Gaza

Destroyed structures are seen in the west of Gaza City as fights inbetween Israel and Hamas rage into a 4th week. (Photo: AFP) GAZA STRIP – Israeli soldiers pressed muchdeeper into Gaza on Tuesday, driving tanks and armoured bulldozers through the debris of shattered structures and searching for Hamas militants who brought out the worst attack in Israel’s history. Army video revealed soldiers, who are likewise lookingfor to totallyfree at least 240 captives, advancing through a ravaged landscape, with structures lowered to a mangled mess of stone and twisted metal by weeks of ruthless Israeli battle. Israel stated it had struck 300 targets in the 4th night of land operations in Gaza, coming under Hamas anti-tank and machine-gun fire, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed growing global calls for a ceasefire. AFPTV videofootage over Gaza revealed a substantial plume of smoke rippling up from another Israeli strike. The battle project hasactually eliminated 8,306 individuals, according to Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry, lotsof of them kids. Images taken by AFP pressreporters in Gaza revealed Palestinians combing the debris in a desperate search for survivors, and hoping over the bodies over those eliminated, covered in white shrouds. Netanyahu stated stoppingbriefly operations now would be a “surrender” to the Palestinian militant group accountable for ruthless raids on Israeli homes, farms and towns that eliminated an approximated 1,400 individuals and saw at least 240 captives taken according to the mostcurrent count offered by Israeli authorities. But the humanitarian toll has stimulated a international reaction, with help groups and the United Nations stating time is running out for numerous of the area’s 2.4 million individuals rejected gainaccessto to food, water, fuel and medication. Surgeons are carryingout amputations and other operations on healthcarefacility floorings without anaesthetic, and kids are required to beverage salty water, stated Jean-Francois Corty, vice-president of Medecins Sans Frontieres, which has 20 personnel on the ground. Rizk Abu Rok, a 24-year-old paramedic with the Palestinian Red Crescent, informed AFP he gothere at the scene of a strike at a coffeeshop just to discover his dad and anumberof other rel
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