Israel readies for ground offensive

Hundreds of thousands of Israeli troops are massing near the Gaza border, with Israel expected to launch a ground attack on the coastal enclave


GAZA UNDER SIEGE

More than 1,100 people killed in Israeli air strikes. At least 200,000 people have fled their homes

Supplies of electricity, fuel, food, water and medicines cut off


WEST BANK
Tel Aviv
Jerusalem
ISRAEL
Gaza Strip
EGYPT
JORDAN
80km 50 miles

Nevatim Airbase:
U.S. delivering resupplies for Iron Dome rocket interception system


Urban areas 
Refugee camps 
Hospitals

Israel-declared buffer zone
High risk area 
No-go area 
Israeli air base


Access prohibited

Six nautical mile fishing limit

MEDITERRANEAN SEA

GAZA STRIP
Pop: 2.23 million

USS Gerald R. Ford
Aircraft carrier deployed close to Israel


NORTHERN GAZA
Jabalia
Gaza City
GAZA CITY

Gaza’s sole power plant out of fuel

CENTRAL GAZA STRIP
Deir al-Balah
KHAN YOUNIS
Khan Younis
RAFAH Rafah
EGYPT
Rafah crossing
Kerem Shalom checkpoint

Ashkelon
Zikim
Karmia
Yad Mordechai 
Netiv Haasara
Erez crossing 
Or Haner
Sderot
Nit Am 
Mefalsim
Kfar Aza 
Sa’ad
Nahal Oz 
Alumim
Be’eri
Gaza surrounded by heavily fortified perimeter
Re’im 
Kisufim
Ein Hashlosha 
Nirim
Nir Oz 
Magen

ISRAELI CIVILIANS EVACUATED

Sufa
Nir Yitzhak
Sufa
Holit
Kerem Shalom

ISRAEL
Netivot

Israeli army using ground-based rocket launchers against Gaza for first time since 2006

Israel Defence Forces (IDF): Up to 360,000 reservists mobilised, with at least 35 battalions organised into four divisions

5km 3 miles


Sources: Israel Defence Forces, UN OCHA Sep, 2023, BBC, Reuters
Picture: Getty Images
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