Israel intensifies southern Gaza offensive; US, UN urge civilian protections

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Israeli forces press ahead with air and ground bombardment of southern Gaza Strip, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians. Residents say Israeli tanks drove into Gaza across the border and cut off the main north-south route.

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00:00 Israeli forces press ahead with air and ground bombardment of southern Gaza Strip, killing
00:06 and wounding dozens of Palestinians.
00:09 World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says Monday, December
00:14 4, his office received notification from the Israel Defense Forces that supplies should
00:19 be removed from the medical warehouse in southern Gaza within 24 hours.
00:23 Hamas ally Islamic Jihad says its fighters engaged in fierce clashes with Israeli soldiers
00:29 north and east of Khan Younis, Gaza's main southern city.
00:33 Residents say Israeli tanks drove into Gaza across the border and cut off the main north-south
00:39 route.
00:40 The Israeli military says the central road out of Khan Younis to the north constitutes
00:44 a battlefield and was now shut.
00:47 As many as 80 percent of Gaza's 2.3 million people already fled their homes in the eight
00:52 weeks of war.
00:53 [MUSIC PLAYING]

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