Watch: Israeli Strike Destroys High Rise Building In Gaza City
The Israeli military said it struck a high-rise in Gaza City on Friday, shortly after announcing it would target a range of structures identified as being used by Hamas, particularly tall buildings.
Israel has been expanding its forces, intensifying its bombardments and operating on the outskirts of Gaza City ever since announcing its plans to capture the Palestinian territory's largest urban centre after nearly two years of devastating war.
Recommended For YouIn a statement Friday, the military said it had "identified significant Hamas terrorist activity within a wide variety of infrastructure sites in Gaza City, and particularly in high-rise buildings".
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"In the coming days, the (Israeli military) will strike structures that have been converted into terrorist infrastructure in Gaza City: cameras, observation command centres, sniper and anti-tank firing positions, command-and-control compounds," the statement said.
Less than an hour later, the army issued another statement announcing it had struck one such high-rise, adding Hamas had used it "to advance and execute attacks against (Israeli) troops in the area".
An animated infographic accompanying the first statement showed a video camera on top of a tower block with a Hamas "observation command centre" in the building and an "underground tunnel route" below.
The army said that before Friday's strike, "precautionary measures were taken in order to mitigate harm to civilians", including prior warnings.
"The news about Israel beginning to bomb towers and apartment buildings is terrifying. Everyone is scared and doesn't know where to go," said Ahmed Abu Wutfa, 45, who lives in his relatives' partially destroyed fifth-floor apartment in western Gaza City.
"My children are terrified, and so am I. There is no safe place -- we only hope that death comes quickly," he told AFP by telephone.
Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli strikes killed 19 people on Friday in and around Gaza City, an area which the United Nations estimates is home to nearly one million people.
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said in a statement on Friday that: "the bolt has now been removed from the gates of hell in Gaza".

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