Israel shows images of tanks in Gaza as war on Hamas militants deepens

Israel's self-declared"second phase" of a three-week war against Hamas militants had initially been kept from public view, with forces moving under darkness and a telecommunications blackout cutting off Palestinians.

Ahmed said he only found out on Sunday that his cousin had died in an air strike two days previously due to the blackout. Israel has tightened its blockade and bombarded Gaza since Hamas gunmen stormed across the border into Israel on Oct 7, killing at least 1,400 people and taking more than 200 hostages.

On Sunday, the United Nations' Lebanon peacekeeping force UNIFIL said one of its members was injured after shells hit the mission's base near Houla on the Lebanese-Israeli border the day before. Israel will allow a dramatic increase in aid to Gaza in coming days and Palestinian civilians should head to a"humanitarian zone" in the south of the tiny territory, said Colonel Elad Goren of Cogat, the Israeli Defence Ministry agency that coordinates with the Palestinians.

Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, said on its Telegram account that it was"bombing Tel Aviv in response to the Zionist massacres against civilians".

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