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Wed 01 Jan 2009Food trucks try to unload as missiles explode
PLUMES OF black-and-white smoke rose from Gaza’s northern neighbourhoods yesterday as the Israeli military escalated its land, sea and air offensive. Heavy thumps of artillery shells echoed across the green and pleasant land of southern Israel and shook the earth. Gaza’s low-rise buildings gleamed white against a blue sky streaked with thin cloud, writes Michael Jansen, on Israel’s border with Gaza
On the phone from Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip, Irish national Caoimhe Butterly said Israel is concentrating its assault on the north, on Jabalya, a densely populated refugee city, and the outskirts of Gaza city.
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