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Day 10 – Ground Assault to Destroy the Tunnels Begins

by TheTower.org Staff |

The tenth day of Operation Protective Edge is over.

The big news of course is that the IDF began a ground offensive this evening. The Tower covered the beginning of the fighting, the events that led up to it and provided a number of analyses explaining the causes of the escalation as well as Israel’s likely objectives.

The Jerusalem Post reported that a Patriot missile shot down a drone from Gaza over Ashdod.

The Israeli Navy was searching for remnants of the drone, which was intercepted over an open area near the Ashdod coast.

The military wing of Hamas, the Izzadin Kassam Brigade, has taken responsibility for launching the drone.

The Tower today covered the successful IDF’s attack on a terror cell that infiltrated Israel through a tunnel just across the border from Gaza. It’s unclear how many of the well armed terrorists were killed, but it appears that a major terror attack was averted.

Echoing the assessment of yesterday’s Washington Post editorial, former President Clinton derided Hamas’ use of human shields as “a crass strategy.”

President Obama also offered his support to Israel. In remarks yesterday he said, “There’s no country on Earth that can be expected to live under a daily barrage of rockets,” and faulted Hamas for refusing to accept yesterday’s ceasefire.

Earlier this week the Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee approved a measure “that would among other things double U.S. aid for Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile system,” because, as this week has demonstrated “it works.”

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the agency devoted to providing services to the Palestinians, announced today that it found some 20 rockets stored in one of its currently vacant schools in the Gaza Strip. Also a reporter observed a rocket being shot close to another UNRWA school.

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