‘There is no safe place in Gaza’: Israeli strikes terrify inhabitants
by Hazem Balousha in Gaza City, Peter Beaumont and Ha from World news | The Guardian on (#5HR4R)
Heavy bombardment of Gaza City tower-block homes stirs memories of 2014 Israeli, Hamas war
The tower blocks of Gaza City's Rimal district, one of its wealthier neighbourhoods, look towards the sea and over the beachside al-Shati refugee camp out of which Hamas, which rules Gaza, first emerged in the late 1980s.
On Tuesday Israeli jets hit one of the towers, an eight-storey apartment block, where Hassan Abu al-Ata, deputy commander of Islamic Jihad's Gaza Brigade, who is blamed for rocket attacks against Israel, was sheltering.
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