The urban war in Gaza's densely-populated Shijaiyah neighbourhood offers a sobering foreshadowing of the current preparation by the Israeli military.
A Palestinian boy carries salvageable items from the rubble of a building destroyed during Israeli air strikes in the Rafah refugee camp in southern Gaza. / Photo: AFPand more than a dozen Israeli soldiers nearly a decade ago offers a glimpse of the type of fighting that could lie ahead if Israeli forces roll into Gaza in response to Hamas's unprecedented attack across southern Israel last week.
As Israeli forces pushed into Shijaiyah, a jumble of squat concrete buildings and narrow alleys, Hamas fighters responded with full force to the invading force. Fifty-five Gaza civilians were killed during the two-day battle, including 19 children and 14 women, a UN report found, as well as an unknown number of Hamas fighters. Thirteen Israeli soldiers were killed.
The tremendous firepower may have stemmed the army's losses, but it took a heavy toll on civilians and flattened much of the neighbourhood. Some 670 buildings were destroyed, and nearly 1,200 were moderately to severely damaged, the UN report said. Investigators counted 270 craters.
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