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Israeli air strikes hit the northern Gaza Strip after Israel and Hamas announced a deal on allowing at least 50 hostages and scores of Palestinian prisoners to be freed, while offering besieged Gaza residents a four-day truce after weeks of all-out war. The truce would include a ceasefire on the ground and a pause in Israeli air operations over southern Gaza. IMAGES
Beit Lahia in northern Gaza lies in ruins, with some homes completely flattened following air strikes, as Israel continues its relentless offensive against Hamas in the besieged Palestinian territory. IMAGES
Smoke billows over the northern Gaza Strip after Israeli air strikes. The strikes come ahead of the start of a four-day truce between Israel and Hamas. The Palestinian militant group is set to free at least 50 of the hostages they took in their deadly October 7 attack. In turn, Israel would release at least 150 Palestinian prisoners and allow more humanitarian aid into the coastal territory after more than six weeks of bombardment, heavy fighting and crippling siege. IMAGES
Israel pounds Gaza with "significant" strikes with soldiers battling Hamas forces in the besieged territory, ignoring ceasefire calls by UN aid agencies who condemned surging civilian deaths in the month-long conflict. IMAGES
Strikes on the northern Gaza Strip are seen from the Israeli town of Sderot, as the Israeli military vowed to intensify bombardments. The health ministry in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip said on Tuesday that 5,791 people had been killed in the territory since the outbreak of the war with Israel, when Hamas militants stormed into Israel from Gaza on October 7, killing at least 1,400 people and taking more than 220 hostages, according to Israeli officials. IMAGES
Strikes on the northern Gaza Strip are seen from Israel's Sderot as the Israeli military pledged to intensify bombardments. Hamas in its October 7 attack on southern Israel killed more than 1,400 people and took over 200 hostages, Israeli officials say. Retaliatory air and artillery strikes since then have killed over 5,000 in Gaza, according to the Hamas-ruled health ministry. IMAGES