Experts say there are parallels between fighting in Gaza and when Iraqi and U.S.-led forces fought ISIS in Mosul over nine months.
Satellite imagery of the devastated Iraqi city of Mosul could be a sign of the future awaiting the Gaza Strip, as Israel expands its ground operations almost a month after the outbreak of violence in the region.Images of the northern Iraqi city show it just before the Islamic State group took control of it in 2014, and then in the wake of the battle that followed between Iraqi government and U.S.-led coalition forces and Islamist fighters between 2016 and 2017.
Yet there are other similarities. The battle for Mosul came at an eyewatering human cost — at least 9,000 civilians were killed in the fighting for the city, according to estimates from evidence submitted to the British government and The Associated Press.'It was the biggest assault on a city in a couple of generations,' Chris Woods, head of U.K. nonprofit monitoring organization, Airwars, told AP in December 2017.
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