The Israeli military gave a visual tour of the barren strip of land on Gaza’s southern border. The escorted tour on Friday was a rare glimpse of Gaza’s southern city of Rafah and the Philadelphi corridor, the narrow strip that borders Egypt and which Israeli troops seized in May. (AP)
Israeli soldiers take up positions next to the Philadelphi corridor along the border with Egypt, in the Gaza Strip (AP)A view of a tunnel which the military says Hamas militants used in the southern Gaza Strip (AP)An Israeli soldier lights candles at the entrance of a tunnel where the military says six Israeli hostages were recently killed by Hamas militants (AP)Israeli soldiers move on the Philadelphi corridor along the border with Egypt, in the Gaza Strip (AP)Israeli soldiers drive next to destroyed buildings following Israeli strikes during a ground operation in the Gaza Strip (AP)
Israeli soldiers take up position next to buildings destroyed by the Israeli military in the Gaza Strip (AP)Israeli soldiers stand at the entrance of a tunnel where the military says six Israeli hostages were recently killed by Hamas militants (AP)Israeli soldiers take up position next to buildings destroyed by the Israeli military in the Gaza Strip (AP)Israeli soldiers take up positions during a ground operation in the Gaza Strip (AP)Israeli soldiers move next to buildings destroyed by the Israeli military in the Gaza Strip (AP)Israeli soldiers take up positions next to an entrance of a tunnel which the military says Hamas militants used in the southern Gaza Strip (AP)
