It was noon on June 26 when the residents of the al-Shuja’iyya neighborhood east of Gaza City — one of the largest neighborhoods in the Gaza Strip inhabited by over 300,000 people — were taken by surprise as Israeli tanks rolled into their neighborhood. Residents described chaotic scenes as tanks fired indiscriminately, unleashing a barrage of shells that ripped through the area.
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