Today, Israel's military allowed humanitarian aid into Gaza for the first time in nearly three months,

as the leaders of Britain, France, and Canada threatened to sanction Israel if it didn't provide more assistance.

Israel also ordered Gaza's second largest city evacuated as part of a new ground operation.

Here's Nick Schifrin.

In Rafah today, a new campaign to reoccupy Gaza.

The operation is named for a biblical leader who annihilated his opponents.

Israel's now vowing to clear Hamas once and for all and hold territory.

All of Gaza's territory, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said today.

We're going to take over all areas of the strip. That's what we're going to do.

And so excavators march into battle with a mission to flatten Gaza.

And an already destroyed city, Rafa, is reduced to further rubble.

In the last month, Israel has expanded what it calls a buffer zone along the Gaza border

from hundreds of feet to more than a mile and enlarged a corridor that bisects Gaza.

Today, it ordered the evacuation of Gaza's second largest city and says it will move

through Han Yunus toward the sea. Israel controls about a third of Gaza's second largest city and says it will move through Han Yunus toward the sea.

Israel controls about a third of Gaza and is pushing the population into shrinking pockets

outside of IDF control.

We're now seeing Israel moving to create some kind of an inhabitable hellscape by demolishing the remaining buildings that

Hamas is still using.

Asaafar Ryan is a fellow at the Washington Institute whose final posting as a Brigadier General

was head of the Israeli military's strategic planning.

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