(Sputnik-Russia) Responding to recent events in Gaza, Prof. (emeritus) Abraham Diskin, an Israeli political scientist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, told Radio Sputnik: "As far as I evaluate the situation, Hamas really begged for a ceasefire." "Israel was really cautious not to cause too many casualties in general and civilian casualties in particular, but I think that the blows that Hamas had to observe were very, very severe and...it is very, very far from being a Hamas victory. Although Hamas presented it as such, I think the opposite is correct."
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