It is a scene of utter devastation.
November 4, 2023, 3:51 PMABC News' Ian Pannell traveled a few miles across the border into Gaza with the IDF and foreign journalists.I have just returned from a brief embed inside Gaza with the Israel Defense Forces. We travelled a few miles across the border with a handful of foreign journalists.
It is a scene of utter devastation and remains a highly active and dangerous battle. Building after building is scarred and blackened by the bombardment, the incessant tank fire and flares soaring across the sky"Nowhere is safe," the deputy commander tells me. A veteran of past wars, he says this time has to be different, that Hamas cannot be allowed to attack Israel again.
ABC News' Ian Pannell traveled a few miles across the border into Gaza with the IDF and foreign journalists.We joined a convoy of a few dozen heavily armed soldiers, and more than ten tanks and armored personnel carriers. At one point an explosion and flames to the side of the road, an IED or mine. When we finally dismounted, the air was thick with dust and smoke. The sound of war interrupts the uneasy moments of silence; the crackle of gunfire, the crump of tank fire.
This is an army full of determination and confidence, it has immense firepower at its disposal but the urban warfare they are in is perhaps the most dangerous an army can face.The deputy commander said his daughter's birthday is in January and he hopes that by then he will be home again with his family.
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