Incredible photographs capture Israeli missiles a split second before they reduce Gaza buildings to rubble

Gazing skywards in terror, civilians inGaza City watched as three drone strikes smashed into the apartment block to warn anyone too close that the knock-out blow was on its way.

Moments later, an F-16 fighter jet roared overhead to drop the final missile that obliterated the building.

A few minutes earlier, the owner of flats had been warned of the impending strike after the Israeli military phoned his son to tell them to evacuate immediately.

Bashir al-Ramlawi, 58, scampered out with 35 members of his family who had already fled fighting in other parts ofGaza moments before the attack.

As the dust settled, he said: 'I don’t know why they hit my house. We don't know where we will go.'

Afterwards, people gathered to take take pictures of the devastation on their mobile phones.

Others simply walked nonchalantly on past the explosion, suggesting it was more than a daily occurrence.

Some were so accustomed to aerial strikes they knew the tactics employed by the Israelis - three smaller missiles fired from a drone to warn anyone too close, followed by one from a fighter jet to destroy the building.

It was reportedly a pinpoint strike which left no-one dead or injured, leaving it unclear why the Israelis targeted the building.

The images emerged as the three-day ceasefire collapsed, with both Hamas and Israel blaming each other for breaking the truce.

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