Yes, it does. Israel government and Israel people should not be surprised, because this is a relatively low price for what they had done so far with our priceless support and help.
I dont understand your comment. There is (or should be) a humanitarian cease fire, so that the people of Gaza will be able to breath a little. Hamas is still launching rockets. Why?
Because everyone knows the only "achievement" Hamas can ever have on Israel is its high casulty number - "ACCEPT OUR DEMANDS OR WE DIE ! " Bibi is doing well so far IMO, slow but persistant. International sympathy to Gaza reached a level they can do whatever they want - even break humanitarian cease fire - and not a whisper to condemn it, which is why we dont need to give a toss (picked it up from the Brit-Palestinians here ) on that.
75 min left to the one sided "cease fire", Following the failed tunnel attack earlier this day, my guess is a limited land invasion to expose other tunnels, Gaza is probebly so full of underground tunnels and bunkers that destroying them will collapse entire streets into the ground.
Military talking, the best strategy to deal with such a wide network of tunnels would be to inundate them with liquid cement [the usage of gas is of course excluded]. This would give again stability to the soil. But to do this it would require a certain control of the territory [so a ground operation would be necessary].
Its miles of tunneles and crosspoints leading to other tunnels, even water wont reach before collapsing before it reaches all, Israel has the army special geek unit working on a device for mapping the underground tunneles + consulting with the Gas drilling experts, Here you can see the 13 terrorists that dug out from an underground tunnel next to a settelment 10 hours ago, may God have mercy on their souls.... http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4545095,00.html
Interesting, so Moti Almoz is playing in this game. Well, this tactic of excavating tunnels [or using existing tunnels of some nature] is anyway a smart move, overall under crowded urban areas. They put themselves and their weaponry in position difficult to be attacked without involving the civilian population [and actually the only vulnerable points are the terminations of the tunnels ...].
Exactly so, why does Hamas endanger all of Gaza for such worthless terrorism I wonder. Why make international war criminals for something that has no hard results other than to be sure to cause legitimate counter action to stop it.
