After a relentless and brutal bombing campaign of the Gaza Strip, Israel is on the brink of launching a ground assault.

The incessant bombing of the besieged enclave has resulted in at least 4,137 Palestinian casualties so far, according to Gaza’s health ministry, around 500 of whom perished in the bloodbath at the Al-Ahli Hospital earlier this week.

“The situation is unprecedented. What Israel is doing in Gaza, the destruction, deaths and restrictions, it is a crime against humanity, a ‘genocide’… Operations do bring in more death and destruction,” says Shadi Ali, a 40-year-old Palestinian expat whose family members are stuck in Gaza.

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