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00:00It's more than a year since Israel first unleashed its firepower on northern Gaza.
00:05Now it's happening all over again.
00:08A renewed offensive on this part of the territory has triggered another mass exodus of Palestinians
00:13– up to 100,000 according to the UN.
00:18They came to us at six in the morning with shelling and massacres and they took us out.
00:23They took my brother and left his wife and children.
00:26God help us.
00:28Everyone is in the same predicament.
00:30Have mercy on us.
00:32We have been displaced 50 times, 50 times.
00:38North Gaza has suffered some of the worst destruction throughout the war.
00:42Israeli forces first left late last year before returning for a short burst of fighting in
00:47May.
00:48Now they're back, battling what Israeli officials call pockets of Hamas fighters which have
00:54regrouped.
00:55Israel says it killed roughly 750 of them in October.
01:00Security officials say the goal this time round is to isolate those fighters from others
01:04further south in Gaza City, tightening a siege that has had disastrous consequences for the
01:09civilian population.
01:13Kamal Adwan Hospital in Jabalia has run critically low on supplies.
01:18But Israel has denied accusations it is choking off aid or depopulating the north.
01:23On Monday, its foreign minister said residents could return after the war.
01:27At the end of the war they will be able to do that.
01:30Right now there is still a military operation where you mentioned it is not safe to be there.
01:40But critics say that unless Israel finds an alternative to Hamas or a post-war strategy,
01:46the war will never end.
01:48The UN says a fifth of the pre-war population remains in the north, less than 100,000 people.