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00:00 Bombs raining down into Gaza while Hamas rockets fly out of it, aimed for Israel.
00:05 These images come from the Israeli Air Force.
00:08 Posted on social media, they illustrate Israel's retaliation against Hamas
00:13 after the Islamist group's deadliest incursion into Israeli territory in half a century.
00:19 According to the Israeli Air Force, this is what it calls a terror nest,
00:23 or where many of the attacks on Israel were planned.
00:26 These hits, spread out across Palestinian territories,
00:30 are part of what Israel's prime minister vowed would be a mighty vengeance.
00:34 But not all of the Israeli bombs have hit purely Hamas hideouts.
00:39 Here in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip,
00:43 Palestinians picked through the rubble of their levelled mosque.
00:47 At night, Israeli planes targeted the mosque of al-Habib Mohammed
00:52 and transformed it into a pile of ruins.
00:54 As you can see, this is a violation of the holiness of the house of God
00:59 and a violation of the Muslim holy places in their own lands.
01:02 Multiple apartment blocks were also reduced to rubble in Gaza.
01:07 It's a narrow strip of land that is home to 2.3 million Palestinians.
01:11 Like in Israel, after Hamas' attacks, in Gaza the wounded were rushed to hospital
01:18 and families began to mourn their dead.
01:20 The Palestinian Foreign Ministry condemned the targeting of civilians.
01:25 The scenes of devastation inflicted on Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip are harrowing.
01:30 As an occupying power, Israel has no right or justification
01:34 to target the defenceless civilian population in Gaza or elsewhere in Palestine.
01:39 Gaza has lived under a blockade for 16 years, since Hamas took over the area.
01:44 With Israeli retaliatory strikes falling on Gaza,
01:48 scores of Palestinian families have sought refuge in over 40 United Nations schools.
01:54 At least 20,000 people have already fled their homes
01:58 as the conflict between Hamas and Israel roars on.