Gaza City —
Israeli tanks have moved into multiple neighborhoods of Gaza City over the past 24 hours, with journalists working for CNN in the city reporting heavy shelling, explosions and the sound of gunfire.
Geolocated images on Tuesday show tanks now in the west of the territory’s largest city, in an area known as Beach Camp.
Tanks were also filmed south of the Islamic University on Monday, indicating that Israeli forces have pushed deep into Gaza City since beginning a ground assault on Sunday.
The Israeli military ordered the city’s residents and those displaced there to leave earlier this month . Around a million people were estimated to be in Gaza City at that time. The Israeli military told CNN Tuesday that 640,000 people have left the city since. It’s not possible to ver