(15 May 2024)
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Southern Israel, looking into Gaza – 15 May 2024
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1. Various of smoke rising over Gaza skyline
STORYLINE:
Columns of smoke were seen rising over Gaza Strip on Wednesday as Israel’s army presses ahead with its military operations in the southern and northern parts of the Palestinian territory.
Around 450,000 Palestinians have been driven out of the southern city Rafah over the past week, the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees said Tuesday. In northern Gaza, Israeli evacuation orders have displaced at least 100,000 people so far.
Some 80% of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million Palestinians have fled their homes since the start of the war, with many relocating multiple times.
No food has entered the two main border crossings in southern Gaza for the past week. Some 1.1 million Palestinians are on the brink of starvation, according to the U.N, while a “full-blown famine” is taking place in the north of the territory.
Seven months of the war have killed more than 35,000 people in Gaza, most of them women and children, according to local health officials.
The war began Oct. 7 when Hamas attacked southern Israel, killing around 1,200 people there, mostly civilians, and taking about 250 hostage. Israel says militants still hold around 100 hostages and the remains of more than 30 others.
AP video by Nicolae Dumitrache
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