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DEBKAfile
Certain gaps remained in the summing up on Friday, May 21, of the IDF’s 11-day Gaza operation by PM Binyamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Benny Gatz and Chief of Staff Lt. Gen, Aviv Kochavi, DEBKAfile’s analysts find as a ceaseefire went into effect.
The prime minister said Hamas faces a new equation: Israel will no longer tolerate rockets in dribs and drabs but will hit back hard for the slightest sign of aggression. But according to military data, Hamas and Islamic Jihad are still left with a stockpile of at 10,000 more rockets
Netanyahu asserted that “calm was restored and [Israel’s] deterrence bolstered.” No one can tell how true this assertion turns out to be. Hamas is not the Lebanese Hizballah which, after a resounding defeat in 2006, kept its head down for 15 years. The Palestinian terrorists in contrast won’t turn a hair even if Gaza’s dense population centers are razed to the ground, any more than they did in the face of the devastation wrought
A TOTAL of 67 Palestinians, including 17 children, have now been killed after airstrikes hit Gaza and rockets were fired into Israel in the worst violence