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A massive cloud of smoke billows after an Israeli strike on Gaza's southern city of Rafah. Defying international objections, Israel sent tanks into the overcrowded border city and seized the nearby crossing into Egypt that is the main conduit for aid into the besieged Palestinian territory. IMAGES
Smoke rises after airstrikes on Rafah in the Gaza Strip. Israel said it had intensified its assault on nearby Khan Yunis that has become the focus of its war with Hamas. IMAGES
Smoke billows over buildings following strikes on Rafah, in the southern Gaza strip, amid ongoing battles between Israel and Hamas militants. Most of Gaza's population are now sheltering in Rafah which has been regularly bombed ahead of a mooted Israeli ground operation there. IMAGES
Smoke rises over Khan Yunis following an Israeli strike on the southern Gaza city, as seen from nearby city of Rafah. Fighting between Israel and Hamas, now in its sixth month, has left much of the coastal Palestinian territory devastated. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to destroy Hamas after the Palestinian militant group begun the war with its unprecedented October 7 attack. IMAGES
Smoke rises after airstrikes hit Rafah in the Gaza Strip. The United States has circulated for the first time a draft UN resolution calling for an "immediate" ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war. IMAGES
Gunfire is heard as a column of black smoke rises over Tal al-Sultan, in the western area of the Gaza Strip's southern city of Rafah. The Israeli army said in a statement that its operations are continuing in central and southern Gaza including Rafah city on the border with Egypt. IMAGES
Smoke rises over central Rafah, seen from Salaheddin street in eastern Khan Yunis, and UN vehicles accompany empty fuel trucks on their way to Kerem Shalom crossing in Gaza Strip. IMAGES
Smoke billows and gunfire rings out amid destruction in deserted neighbourhoods in Gaza's Rafah, after Israeli evacuation order. IMAGES
A column of smoke is seen rising behind residential buildings in the east of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, following Israeli bombardment. More than 100,000 people have fled Rafah in recent days, the United Nations said Friday, with the southern Gaza city under threat of a full-scale Israeli ground invasion. IMAGES
Smoke rises over Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, following strikes on the city. IMAGES