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An Israeli soldier stands at a staging area after crossing back into Israel from Gaza on July 28, 2014.

Israel’s operation widens, but its objectives are getting murkier

Conflict & Justice

Journalist Gregg Carlstrom argues that, after all the briefings and wartime speeches, the Israeli offensive in Gaza is ultimately an open-ended campaign yoked to an impossible political objective.

An Israeli soldier stands at a staging area after crossing back into Israel from Gaza on July 28, 2014.

Israel’s operation widens, but its objectives are getting murkier

Conflict & Justice
People pray next to the bodies of eight Palestinian members from the al-Haj family from Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. Palestinian medics said the relatives were killed in an early morning air strike carried out by Israel that destroyed at least

In attacking Israel, Hamas might be trying out a back-to-basics strategy

Conflict & Justice
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Palestinian reconciliation deal signed

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