Blackened windows, shattered bedrooms, pockmarked walls. Wherever you look in northern Gaza, you see destruction and desolation a month into Israel's military campaign to oust Hamas from the enclave. Read more at straitstimes.com.
NORTHERN GAZA - Blackened windows, shattered bedrooms, pockmarked walls. Wherever you look in northern Gaza, you see destruction and desolation a month into Israel’s military campaign to oust Hamas from the enclave.
“It’s been a long two weeks of fighting. It is not an operation, it is a war,” said Lieutenant-Colonel Ido, deputy commander of the 401st brigade. He did not give his last name.Israeli forces entered Gaza on Oct 27 after days of heavy bombardment in response to a surprise Hamas attack through the border fence on Oct 7, which Israel says killed 1,400 people.
“So we know that everyone here is our enemy. We have not seen any civilians here. Only Hamas,” he said, standing in a badly damaged children’s bedroom that was painted pink.Israeli soldiers walk through the rubble, amid the ongoing ground invasion against Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in the northern Gaza Strip.
The reporters were driven to the site in a heavily armoured, hi-tech vehicle known as a Tiger, which has no windows. Instead screens connected to cameras on the outside show the occupants where they are going.Piles of earth have been banked up to give protection to army vehicles parked outside the wrecked buildings. Idling tanks have sturdy metal grills on top to protect them from possible drone attack from the air.
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