Israeli airstrikes hammered Gaza City overnight as ground forces battled Hamas militants in dense urban neighborhoods in the besieged coastal strip.
Israeli strikes pounded Gaza City overnight into Thursday as ground forces battled Hamas militants in dense urban neighborhoods from which tens of thousands have fled in recent days. Israeli troops were around two miles from Shifa Hospital in the heart of downtown Gaza City, the hospital's director said. Israel has been vague on troop movements, but officials say Gaza's largest city is the focus of their campaign to crush Hamas following its deadly Oct. 7 assault inside Israel.
“The conditions here are disastrous in every sense of the word,' he said. “We’re short on medicine and equipment, and the doctors and nurses are exhausted. … We’re unable to do much for the patients.' International journalists who entered northern Gaza on a tour led by the Israeli military Wednesday saw heavily damaged buildings, fields of rubble and toppled trees along the Mediterranean shoreline.
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