Prior to this embed, there was little communication with the Israeli Defense Forces contacts. The IDF had something they wanted to show the outside world, and after four months of this conflict, they had the drill down to a method.
All of us piled into Humvees. With one hand on the roll bar and the other on an automatic weapon fixed to the bonnet, a soldier was positioned in the front seat. There was an Israeli shoulder-mounted rocket and an extra rifle at my left elbow.
We were still in Israel for the first ten minutes of the journey. We drove on paved roads. The road became tougher where there were broken sides as we approached the Gaza Strip.
As we crossed the border into Gaza and entered the area, all we could see was devastation. There wasn’t a single building or other structure that I saw unharmed. The majority were crushed.
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The vehicles sped along the winding, potholed sand roads at a high speed until we reached the 401st armored division camp in the Gaza Strip. Between their vehicles, soldiers sat on plastic chairs to wait. A few had ventured down to shoot photos at the beach. Some worked on the large Merkava tanks.
Our visit was brief. We moved to an Israeli Namer armored personnel vehicle and headed to the Shati refugee camp, situated somewhat to the north of Gaza City’s city center. reports of fighters for Hamas Even with Israel’s strong hold over the region, there was a plausible chance of an ambush when they regrouped in Gaza City.
