U.N. HEADQUARTERS,GAZA: Aid workers try to save food while firefighters work after Israeli shells struck Thursday. Hatem Moussa/APFrom Christian Science Monitor:
The UN headquarters in Gaza was struck by Israeli fire. Fissures are emerging among Israeli civilian and military leaders over how and when to end the campaign.
JERUSALEM and Tel Aviv - The Israeli military on Thursday shelled the main United Nations aid compound in Gaza, struck a building that houses foreign news organizations, and caused a fire at a hospital. The attacks sparked global condemnation even as efforts to reach a cease-fire continued.
Later in the day, Hamas struck the Israeli city of Beersheba with a salvo of Qassam rockets, injuring five people, two of them seriously.
The Israeli strikes on what political officials said were unintended targets in the Gaza campaign underscore what some analysts see as a furious drive by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) to achieve as many last-minute blows to Hamas as possible before a cease-fire is reached. And at this stage of the war, fissures are emerging within the Israeli civilian and military leadership.
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My Comment: Is there a surge before a truce ..... probably ..... but the military and/or political gains will be n
JERUSALEM and Tel Aviv - The Israeli military on Thursday shelled the main United Nations aid compound in Gaza, struck a building that houses foreign news organizations, and caused a fire at a hospital. The attacks sparked global condemnation even as efforts to reach a cease-fire continued.
Later in the day, Hamas struck the Israeli city of Beersheba with a salvo of Qassam rockets, injuring five people, two of them seriously.
The Israeli strikes on what political officials said were unintended targets in the Gaza campaign underscore what some analysts see as a furious drive by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) to achieve as many last-minute blows to Hamas as possible before a cease-fire is reached. And at this stage of the war, fissures are emerging within the Israeli civilian and military leadership.
Read more ....
My Comment: Is there a surge before a truce ..... probably ..... but the military and/or political gains will be n
Later in the day, Hamas struck the Israeli city of Beersheba with a salvo of Qassam rockets, injuring five people, two of them seriously.
The Israeli strikes on what political officials said were unintended targets in the Gaza campaign underscore what some analysts see as a furious drive by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) to achieve as many last-minute blows to Hamas as possible before a cease-fire is reached. And at this stage of the war, fissures are emerging within the Israeli civilian and military leadership.
Read more ....
My Comment: Is there a surge before a truce ..... probably ..... but the military and/or political gains will be next to negligible. More likely it is both sides at a lower level just wanting to have some licks at each other before their political chiefs tell them to stop.
If I am a betting man .... I would say that there will be 4 to 7 days more of fighting before a truce is agreed upon with Egypt as the mediator.
The Israeli strikes on what political officials said were unintended targets in the Gaza campaign underscore what some analysts see as a furious drive by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) to achieve as many last-minute blows to Hamas as possible before a cease-fire is reached. And at this stage of the war, fissures are emerging within the Israeli civilian and military leadership.
Read more ....
My Comment: Is there a surge before a truce ..... probably ..... but the military and/or political gains will be next to negligible. More likely it is both sides at a lower level just wanting to have some licks at each other before their political chiefs tell them to stop.
If I am a betting man .... I would say that there will be 4 to 7 days more of fighting before a truce is agreed upon with Egypt as the mediator.