GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The few buildings still standing in this expanse of northern Gaza protrude from the earth like broken bones. Around them, what was once a dense, urban neighborhood has been blown up, knocked down or otherwise crushed into debris and dust.

The Israeli military on Wednesday led an AP photographer and other journalists on a tour of an area on the eastern edge of Gaza City leveled in an effort to demolish infrastructure it says was a base for Hamas militants.

The obliteration of Shijaiya, a sprawling neighborhood within sight of a kibbutz targeted in the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack that triggered the war, is part of a larger campaign. Since January the military has been systematically flattening neighborhoods in northern Gaza, Rafah in the southernmost part of the

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