Israel launches ground offensive deep inside Gaza City
by Julian Borger in Jerusalem from on (#702NY)
IDF says advance aims to dismantle Hamas's grip' as UN report says Israel has committed genocide in territory
Israel unleashed its long-threatened ground offensive in Gaza City on Tuesday, sending tanks and remote-controlled armoured cars packed with explosives into its streets, in defiance of international criticism and the findings of a UN commission that it was committing genocide in the Palestinian territory.
Gaza is burning. The IDF is striking terror infrastructure with an iron fist," Israel's defence minister, Israel Katz, wrote on X as the attack was launched in the early hours of the morning, adding: We will not relent until the mission is completed."
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