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<img alt="Smoke rises from rubble of residential buildings in Gaza City" src="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/640/cpsprodpb/vivo/live/images/2025/9/26/e1004747-729d-4554-8753-7e333444f6f3.jpg.webp" srcset="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/240/cpsprodpb/vivo/live/images/2025/9/26/e1004747-729d-4554-8753-7e333444f6f3.jpg.webp 240w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/320/cpsprodpb/vivo/live/images/2025/9/26/e1004747-729d-4554-8753-7e333444f6f3.jpg.webp 320w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/480/cpsprodpb/vivo/live/images/2025/9/26/e1004747-729d-4554-8753-7e333444f6f3.jpg.webp 480w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/624/cpsprodpb/vivo/live/images/2025/9/26/e1004747-729d-4554-8753-7e333444f6f3.jpg.webp 624w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/800/cpsprodpb/vivo/live/images/2025/9/26/e1004747-729d-4554-8753-7e333444f6f3.jpg.webp 800w" width="1024" height="576" class="ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950"/> Picture supply, Getty Pictures The conflict in Gaza has been happening for almost two years.

Israeli forces are nearing the centre of Gaza Metropolis, which Israel describes because the "final stronghold of Hamas".

The Israel Protection Forces (IDF) estimated final week that as much as 3,000 Hamas fighters had been within the metropolis.

In the meantime the BBC has spoken to a Hamas determine who claims the militant group is keen to name hundreds of fighters into the town, elevating the worry of intense preventing in dense city areas the place hundreds of civilians stay.

On Wednesday, native hospitals reported that greater than 80 Palestinians had been killed by Israeli hearth.

The Israeli navy mentioned it struck two Hamas fighters and that the variety of casualties didn't align with its personal data.

And, over the previous day, the IDF says it has struck over 140 Hamas targets all through the Strip.

In its newest replace yesterday, Gaza's Hamas-run well being ministry says 83 individuals have been killed and 216 injured within the final 24 hours throughout the Strip. This brings the full quantity killed since 7 October 2023 to 65,502, it says.

As a reminder, Worldwide journalists have been banned by Israel from coming into the Gaza Strip independently because the begin of the conflict almost two years in the past, making verifying claims from either side tough.