© CopyrightThe IDF tries to justify the unjustifiable. These were civilian residential apartments. The 12-story Mushtaha Tower was blown up after Israel called it "Hamas infrastructure".
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has sought to justify its actions by saying Hamas and Islamic Jihad hide in the buildings, as use them to organize assaults on Israeli troops.
Widely circulating images show that large buildings in the city center have been completely collapsed into their own footprint.
And on Friday, Al Jazeera reports that more are being targeted, amid IDF warnings issues to residents of certain buildings, saying that must immediately evacuate the premises.
"In the past half an hour, the Israeli army has issued a forced evacuation order for people living in Gaza City's largest residential building," according to Al Jazeera's Hani Mahmoud.
"We're talking about a 16-storey building that houses at least 65 residential apartments and lots of department stores at the bottom of this residential tower," Mahmoud described.
Another angle of the collapse...
Palestinian residents are receiving phone calls telling them they have a very short window of time to get out of their homes, leading to fear and panic among civilians.
At this rate it's expected that the entire central Gaza City area will be flattened.
The IDF called it "terrorist infrastructure" and utterly destroyed it...
Israel's military has also been regularly destroying tunnel networks under the city, as Hamas has frequently use these for guerilla warfare tactics. Hamas has been ambushing IDF infantry units by sending small teams from these tunnels.
Comment: Don't forget to mention those 'Hamas tunnels'.
There seems to be no low Israel is unwilling to sink to:
Al-Mawasi on the southern coast and has many sand dunes. It is fourteen kilometers long and one kilometer wide, making up about 3% of the Gaza Strip. Israel is cramming over a million people into 3% of Gaza. There's a word for that . . . .