ABC News’ Visual Verification team has analyzed videos from the IDF and Hamas.
is conducting what it describes as an "expanded ground operation" inside Gaza. Israeli authorities have said the ground operation will support them in achieving the goals of the war, including attempting to rescue more than 200 hostages held by Hamas since the surprise terror attack on Oct. 7 and to destroy Hamas, which the U.S. and E.U. have classified as a terrorist organization.. This analysis gives an idea of the scale and scope of the ground operation so far.
Later on Saturday, a video began to circulate on social media showing two Israeli soldiers on the roof of a building nearly two miles south of the location of the first video.They take hold of a flagpole hanging on the roof before the video cuts off. Someone speaking near the camera says it has been three weeks since "the massacre," an apparent reference to the Oct. 7 attack that killed more than 1,400 people, according to Israeli authorities.
Hamas militants film themselves emerging from a tunnel before they are seen shooting toward the soldiers' position and the soldiers scramble to react.Yosef Al Sayfei / Google Earth / Canva
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