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The operation went ahead despite widespread condemnation from Israel’s European allies.

More than two-thirds of Gaza City’s roughly 1 million residents remain, despite the pummeling and repeated warnings, according to Israeli military estimates.

BEIRUT — Israel began a ground offensive into Gaza City, military officials said Tuesday, slow-rolling into the beleaguered city from multiple directions despite international opprobrium and even as hundreds of thousands of Palestinian residents remain within Gaza’s devastated confines.

Weeks of intense bombardment that all but leveled the Gaza Strip’s largest urban center made way for what Israeli military officials said was the ground

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