Israel said on Thursday evening that it had launched a ground operation in the Gaza Strip, escalating its ten-day-old war with Hamas into a new phase that it said it might expand even further if need be.
The Israeli military bombarded the northern Gaza Strip in attacks that lit up the night sky as naval vessels fired at the Palestinian territory from the sea.
The escalation came after a brief five-hour humanitarian pause in fighting on Thursday, which was followed by a return to heavy Israeli shelling that health officials said killed five children and pushed the death toll from Operation Protective Edge above 235.
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