After over 100 days of war, Palestinians fight in hard-hit areas of Gaza and fire rockets at Israel

Palestinian militants battled Israeli forces in devastated northern Gaza and launched a barrage of rockets from farther south on Tuesday in a show of force more that 100 days into Israel's massive air and ground campaign against the tiny coastal enclave.

The fighting in the north, which was the first target of Israel's offensive and where entire neighborhoods have been pulverized, showed how far Israel remains from achieving its goals of dismantling Hamas and returning scores of hostages captured in the Oct. 7 attack that sparked the war.

Meanwhile, Gaza's humanitarian crisis is worsening, with 85% of the territory's 2.3 million having fled their homes and U.N.