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Israel bombs high-rise towers as brutal Gaza City assault intensifies

A man runs as smoke rises after a building is hit by an Israeli air strike, in Gaza City on Friday, September 5 [Mahmoud Issa/Reuters]

Israel’s forces have destroyed a high-rise tower in a densely populated part of Gaza City and have warned of further attacks to multi-storey buildings as it intensifies its campaign to seize control of the capital.

On Friday, the Israeli military ordered people in Mushtaha Tower, a 12-storey building located on the western side of Gaza City and surrounded by hundreds of makeshift tents, to evacuate, and later struck the building, claiming it was “Hamas infrastructure” and was used to plan and carry out operations against Israeli forces.

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