Sound of massive blasts heard in Gaza as an Israeli ground offensive looms

(16 Oct 2023)
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Gaza City - 16 October 2023
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1. Gaza skyline in darkness after Israel cut off power supply UPSOUND: Blasts

STORYLINE:
The sound of massive blasts rang across Gaza in the early hours of Monday, ahead of an expected Israeli ground offensive in the war sparked by Hamas' deadly attack.

Palestinian civilians across Gaza, already battered by years of conflict, were struggling for survival Sunday in the face of an unprecedented Israeli operation against the territory following a Hamas militant attack on Oct. 7.

Israel has cut off the flow of food, medicine, water and electricity to Gaza, pounded neighborhoods with airstrikes and told the estimated 1 million residents of the north to flee south ahead of Israel’s planned attack.

The Gaza Health Ministry said 2,670 Palestinians have been killed and 9,600 wounded since the fighting erupted.

More than 1,400 Israelis were killed, the vast majority of them civilians, in Hamas' Oct. 7 assault.

Water has run out at U.N. shelters across Gaza as thousands packed into the courtyard of the besieged territory’s largest hospital as a refuge of last resort from a looming Israeli ground offensive and overwhelmed doctors struggled to care for patients they fear will die once generators run out of fuel.

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