⚡️🇮🇱⛈AERIAL BLASTS ECHO LIKE THUNDER (00:31 in left vid) near Tel Aviv as Hamas launches rocket barrage in answer to Israel’s colossal bombardment of Gaza Strip, Iron Dome warheads rushing up to intercept as people can do nothing but watch from below.

Reports of huge rounds of Israeli tank and artillery fire peppering Gaza Strip in what witnesses call "unprecedented" bombing of beseiged exclave.

UPDATE: Reports of Israeli warships joining barrage of fire on Gaza Strip.

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⚡️🇮🇱🇵🇸ISRAEL “EXPANDING SCOPE” OF GROUND OPERATIONS in Gaza Strip announces IDF spokesman as enclave set alight by Tel Aviv’s strikes, with hellish left pic showing Gaza doused in crimson light from “most intense” Israeli attack since war began.

Hamas's retaliatory rockets continue to soar into Israel with Iron Dome attempting to blast down each warheads while air raid sirens wail (right vid).

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⚡️🇵🇸CUT OFF FROM GLOBE in Gaza Strip as Palestinian Red Cross (left pic) urges world leaders to stop Israel’s "unprecedented" bombardment and lift almost TOTAL communications blackout.

Few remaining links to outside world (right vid) record drone of aircraft over Gaza Strip as smoke clouds pour into skies and blasts ring out across besieged exclave.

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⚡️🇮🇱🇵🇸ISRAELI INVASION OF GAZA BEGINS as reports of Israeli tanks ROLLING INTO GAZA STRIP from North and East (top map) after IDF announces it’s "expanding ground operations" and bombs enclave with "unprecedented" barrage.

Hamas calls on all Islamic nations to help "stop crimes and massacres against people" as THOUSANDS of Palestinians take to streets of Tulkarm, occupied West Bank (bottom vid) in outrage at Israeli aggression and support for millions trapped in Gaza Strip.

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⚡️🇮🇱DEAFENING BOMBARDMENT of Gaza in left vid as Israel launches ground invasion with IDF tanks rolling in and firing into Palestinian exclave (right vid).

Tel Aviv announces it's "expanding ground operations" as MASSIVE smoke clouds rise on horizon after Israel rains down bombs.

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⚡️🇮🇱🇵🇸HAMAS HOSTAGE NEGOTIATIONS FAIL as Israel cites collapse of talks as reason to launch ground invasion of Gaza (bottom pic) amid communications and internet blackout in exclave.

Ear-splitting crack of explosions in top video as fiery mushroom clouds overshadow tall buildings in fierce Israeli assault on Gaza strip.

UPDATE: Hamas says it'll release foreign hostages in exchange for 5-day ceasefire as it repels Israeli incursion in East of Gaza Strip.

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⚡️🇮🇱🇵🇸ISRAEL DOWNPLAYS GAZA INVASION and labels incursion simply "expansion of ground operations" as Washington urges Tel Aviv to "rethink plans for major offensive" (pictured).

While loud explosions pop up (top vid) on horizon in Gaza Strip, US officials cast doubt on Israeli goal of "eradicating Hamas" and don't believe Tel Aviv will be able to do it as they worry about ground invasion's region-wide ripple effect.

UPDATE: Israel just launched ground war on Gaza - Jordan's Foreign Minister.

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⚡️🇵🇸APOCALYPTIC SCENES from streets of Gaza (top pics) as blinding flashes of Israeli bombs mar skyline amid invasion of besieged Strip.

🇹🇷 Turkish Prez Erdogan invites every Turk to join huge protests across Istanbul (bottom pic) to "show solidarity" with Palestinians, under mass assault by Israeli forces in North of Gaza Strip.

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⚡️🇵🇸OCCUPIED WEST BANK ROARS as thousands of Palestinians take to streets in fury at Israel’s invasion of Gaza Strip (bottom vids) while Egyptian air defense shoots 2 drones flying South to North of Red Sea (see map) as Cairo puts air force on high alert.

Israeli army attempt to double down on denial, claiming this ain’t full-scale invasion but “expansion of ground operation”.

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