Special Envoy to Southern Israel
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A haze of heat rises from the sea, making the sun tremble. Nearby but drowned in humid air, the Gaza Strip is barely visible. The din of the fighting nevertheless reached the heights of Sderot with great clarity. Here and there, columns of smoke rise to the sky. A brush fire runs along the top of a hill. On Friday night, in a deluge of bombs, the Israeli army launched the second phase of the war unleashed on October 7 by the Hamas terror assault, in which 1300,230 Israelis lost their lives, and about <> were taken hostage. Units are now operating on the ground in the north-east of the Palestinian territory around Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia. From the top of the hill, you can hear the crack of automatic weapons. On a road below, four personnel carriers pass by with a crash of tracks. Then two armored bulldozers. About twenty artillery shots...
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