Photos from inside Gaza show destruction wrought by Israeli military efforts to root out Hamas

The few buildings still standing in this expanse of northern Gaza protrude from the earth like broken bones. Around them, what was once a dense, urban neighborhood has been blown up, knocked down or otherwise crushed into debris and dust. The Israeli military on Wednesday led an AP photographer and other journalists on a tour of an area on the eastern edge of Gaza City leveled in an effort to demolish infrastructure it says was a base for Hamas militants.