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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
World
Ruwaida Amer

Even refugee camps aren’t safe from Israeli bombs in Gaza

The current Israeli war has been marked by intense bombardment of densely populated areas, especially refugee camps [Abdelkarim Hana/Al Jazeera]

A few days after Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip began, Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari admitted freely that the emphasis of the heavy bombardment of the besieged coastal enclave “is on damage and not accuracy”.

A day later, on October 11, the Israeli army boasted that 6,000 bombs weighing a combined 4,000 tonnes had been dropped on Gaza, one of the world’s most densely populated regions where 2.2 million people live on a 365sq-km (140sq-mile) strip of land.

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