(13 Nov 2023)
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Southern Israel looking into northern Gaza - 13 November 2023
1. Various of shots of plumes of smoke rising, flares and explosion in northern Gaza Strip
STORYLINE:
Large plumes of smoke and explosions were seen on Monday over the skyline of the northern Gaza Strip, as Israeli troops battled Hamas fighters in the besieged Palestinian territory.
Footage captured by The Associated Press from southern Israel showed several explosions, and large waves of smoke.
The war, now in its sixth week, was triggered by Hamas' unprecedented Oct. 7 surprise attack into Israel.
Israel's response has brought unseen levels of death and destruction to Gaza's 2.3 million Palestinian residents, nearly two-thirds of whom have had to flee their homes with no safe refuge available in the besieged territory.
Gaza City, the largest urban area in the territory, is the focus of Israel’s campaign to crush Hamas following the militant.
More than 11,000 Palestinians, two-thirds of them women and minors, have been killed since the war began, according to the Health Ministry in Gaza, which does not differentiate between civilian and militant deaths.
About 2,700 people have been reported missing and are thought to be possibly trapped or dead under the rubble.
Health officials, many of whom work out of Gaza’s largest hospital, Shifa, have not updated that toll since Friday because of the difficulty of accessing hard-hit areas and collecting information.
The Health Ministry, run by Hamas, is the only official source for Gaza casualties.
In previous wars, the ministry’s counts have held up to U.N. scrutiny, independent investigations and even Israel’s tallies.
More than 1,200 people in Israel died, most of them in the Hamas attack, and about 240 hostages were taken from Israel into Gaza by Palestinian militants.
AP video shot by Alon Bernstein
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