(25 Sep 2025)
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Southern Israel, overlooking Gaza Strip – 25 September 2025
1. Various of black smoke in Gaza seen from southern Israel
2. Explosion heard from southern Israel
3. Various of smoke in Gaza seen from southern Israel
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Smoke was seen rising into the sky over the Gaza Strip on Thursday as the war in the enclave rages on.
The Israeli military said in a press release that over the past day, its air force "struck more than 170 targets throughout the Gaza Strip, including terrorists, military structures, weapons storage facilities and terror infrastructure sites."
The war in Gaza began when Hamas-led militants stormed into Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing around 1,200 people and taking 251 hostage.
Forty-eight captives are still inside Gaza, around 20 of them believed by Israel to be alive, after most of the rest were freed in ceasefires or other deals.
Israel’s ongoing retaliatory offensive has killed more than 65,000 people, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. It doesn’t say how many were civilians or combatants, but says women and children make up around half the fatalities. The ministry is part of the Hamas-run government. U.N. agencies and many independent experts consider its figures to be the most reliable estimate of wartime casualties.
Israel launched another major ground operation earlier this month in Gaza City, which experts say is experiencing famine.
More than 300,000 people have fled, but up to 700,000 are still there, many because they can’t afford to relocate.
AP video by Ami Bentov
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