A week into war, Gazans flee homes as Israeli ground offensive looms

GAZA STRIP, Palestinian Territories --- Thousands of Palestinians sought refuge Saturday after Israel warned them to evacuate the northern Gaza Strip ahead of an expected ground offensive against Hamas, one week after the deadliest attack in Israel's history. The Islamist group's militants gunned down, stabbed, and burned more than 1,300 people in the attack Israel has compared to 9/11 in the United States, sparking a massive retaliatory bombing campaign targeting Hamas that has killed over 2,200 in Gaza. Alarm has grown over the fate of Palestinian civilians in blockaded and besieged Gaza -- one of the world's most densely populated areas, home to 2.4 million people -- if it b...Keep on reading: A week into war, Gazans flee homes as Israeli ground offensive looms

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