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Jopgolant, Israel's defense minister, said that his country's operation in Raffa will continue with additional forces.

Israel began its push into Raffer last week

when it urged residents to evacuate areas on the city's periphery.

By Tuesday Israeli tanks had reported areas on the city's periphery.

By Tuesday, Israeli tanks had reportedly reached residential neighborhoods in eastern

Raffer.

Hundreds of thousands of civilians have fled, according to the UN.

Earlier America's military said it had anchored a temporary floating pier to the beach in Gaza

to deliver additional humanitarian aid to Palestinian civilians.

In Donald Trump's criminal trial, the former president's lawyers tried to paint Michael Cohen, the prosecutor's's star witness as a serial liar.

Mr Cohen earlier testified that quote the boss directed him to pay off Stormy Daniels,

a pawn star who says she slept with Mr. Trump.

The defense tried to show that a conversation in which Mr. Trump approved the payment did not

happen as Mr. Cohen described it.

Vladimir Putin met Shijingping in Beijing

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