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The four-day-old war has already claimed at least 1,600 lives, as Israel saw gun battles in the streets of its own towns for the first time in decades and neighbourhoods in Gaza were reduced to rubble.
Hamas today told Israeli civilians to get out of the port city of Ashkelon now in response to the air strikes that are relentlessly pounding the Gaza strip, in a sinister warning.
Mai Gutman, 28, who was born in Israel but moved to Australia at just 18-months-old, is part of the 465,000-strong Israeli Reserve Army and is waiting for the call to take up arms.