Israel launched a Gaza air and naval offensive on July 8 following a surge of cross-border rocket salvoes by Hamas and other Palestinian guerrillas,
Ray Ban Sunglasses Sale, later escalating into ground incursions centered along the infiltration tunnel-riddled eastern frontier of the enclave but often pushing into urban areas.With U.S. backing, Israel had said that whether or not there is a ceasefire its forces would pursue their main mission of hunting tunnels used by Hamas for several cross-border attacks. More than 30 of these, and dozens of access shafts, have already been unearthed and were being blown up, the military said. Our understanding is that our objectives, most importantly the destruction of the tunnels, are close to completion, a military spokesman, Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Lerner, said.Crowded Gazan towns close to the Israeli border have seen devastating clashes, and the flight of tens of thousands of Palestinians, as tanks and troops swept in to confront dug-in guerrillas after the army warned civilians to evacuate.The Palestinian Center for Human Rights said 520,000 people had been displaced by the fighting - more than a quarter of Gaza's population. Another group, the Al-Mezan Centre for Human Rights, said some 3,000 homes had been totally or partly razed.Israel said on Saturday evacuees from Beit Lahiya, a northern town of 70,000 residents, could return. But fear still gripped the townspeople. No one has told us to go back, said Talab Manna, a 30-year-old father of seven camped out at a U.N.-run school serving as a refugee haven. We can't risk going back and being bombed by the Israeli forces. After Friday's ceasefire was shattered, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called his security cabinet into special session to discuss Goldin's suspected capture in the southern town of Rafah, and warned Hamas and other Palestinian guerrillas would bear the consequences of their actions .But Israeli media said Netanyahu and Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon would likely hold course in Gaza rather than escalate.Citing an internal investigation complicated by inability to communicate with its gunmen in theRafah area, Hamas's armed wing said on Saturday it believed their ambush happened an hour before the truce began, in response to Israeli troop advances. Hamas said it did not know what had happened to the soldier but if he was captured,
Ray Ban 3293, he probably died in Israeli hostilities that followed the ambush.Quoting a senior military officer, Israel Radio also said Goldin's condition was not known. It said he was last seen next to the two troops killed by a Hamas suicide bomber - suggesting Goldin may not have survived and his captors had a corpse.Israel has confirmed that 63 soldiers have died in combat. Palestinian shelling has also killed three civilians in Israel. Hamas had long threatened to capture Israelis for a prisoner swap. In 2011, Israel released more than 1,
Ray Ban Aviators Polarized,000 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for Gilad Shalit, a soldier snatched byHamas five years earlier. Israel has twice freed prisoners for the bodies of soldiers held byLebanon's Hezbollah militia.Rafah in ruins
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