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On July 7, 2014, Hamas fired over 100 rockets into Israeli neighborhoods in one day. The next day, Israel responded with a ground invasion of Gaza.
Israel retaliated, the international media focused on stories about Israel bombing schools instead of blaming the terrorists for using human shields.
To save as many innocent lives as possible, Israel voluntarily gave up the strategic advantage of surprise. The IDF sent voice- mail messages in Arabic to thousands of Gazan residents before sending in an airstrike. This gave civilians time to evacuate, but also warned the terrorists to escape.
2014 Operation Protective Edge
For eight years, Israelis along the border with Gaza had endured daily rocket fire from Hamas. But in the summer of 2014, while Israel was searching for three kidnapped teenagers, the rocket attacks suddenly escalated. For weeks, Israel’s gov- ernment sought to negotiate a cease-fire with Hamas without success. Then on July 7th, Hamas fired over 100 rockets into Israeli neighborhoods in one day. This situation had become untenable. Israel had to act.
The next day, Israel responded with a ground invasion of Gaza. Sending in soldiers to fight in the cramped streets and booby-trapped buildings of the Gaza strip was not an easy decision. It put Israeli soldiers in extreme danger, but it also minimized the chances of accidental civilian casualties.
As Israel entered Gaza, they discovered an even more dangerous threat. Hamas had secretly built a network of under- ground tunnels beneath the border with Israel. The terrorists intended to use these tunnels to infiltrate Israel’s towns and kidnap and murder Israeli citizens. Several times during the war, Hamas sent groups of terrorists into Israel through these tunnels, sometimes disguised in IDF uniforms. Thankfully,
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