GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israel broadened its assault on the Gaza Strip on Saturday from mostly military targets to centers of government infrastructure, obliterating the four-story headquarters of the Hamas prime minister with a barrage of five bombs before dawn.
The attack, one of several on government installations, came a day after the prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh, hosted his Egyptian counterpart in that building, a sign of Hamas’ new legitimacy in a radically redrawn Arab world. That stature was underscored Saturday by a visit to Gaza from the Tunisian foreign minister and the rapid convergence in Cairo of two Hamas allies, the prime minister of Turkey and the crown prince of Qatar, for talks with the Egyptian president and the chairman of Hamas on a possible cease-fire.
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The article is confusing and does not make clear how all of this began. It talks of an Israeli "operation" and of Hamas rockets. This needs to be better written right from the top.
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How all this began: see 1948 etc., etc.
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Sure, it's a problem, but how many were killed in Syria today?
Hamas and Hezbolla get all of their rockets from Iran. So much for effective sanctions on Iran by Obama