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Watching footage from the Israel-Gaza battlefield [VIDEO]

Israel, as always, fights its battles on two fronts.
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July 9, 2014

Israel, as always, fights its battles on two fronts: The actual front, now in Gaza and in the skies over Israel, and the public relations battlefield. Today, that means social media, too.

As in past conflicts, the Israel Defense Forces is posting footage from its battles in and around Gaza on its YouTube channel and its Twitter feed.

Here are some of the latest videos:

Palestinians mass on the roof of a Gaza building to thwart an Israeli airstrike by acting as human shields:

Israel kills infiltrators along its coast:

Hamas targets are killed after entering Israel from the sea:

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