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A Palestinian Escalation that Achieved Nothing
(Times of Israel) Avi Issacharoff - The Israeli strikes on Hamas ammunition stores, the targeted killing of the man responsible for channeling funds from Iran, the destruction of several multi-story buildings in the heart of Gaza - all prompted Hamas to internalize the repercussions of continuing the fighting. Several leading figures in Hamas told reporters in Gaza that they had no intention of stopping the fighting until Israel agreed to dramatically change the Gaza reality, but these declarations turned out to be empty.