Palestinians walking through the rubble of destroyed buildings hit by Israeli air strikes in Rafah, Gaza, on Monday. (Khaled Hasan/Bloomberg News)From International Herald Tribune:
TEL AVIV: As Israeli forces tightened their circle around Gaza City on Tuesday, the 18th day of the war on Hamas, senior Israeli intelligence officials said Hamas military forces had been damaged but remained substantially intact.
The military wing of Hamas has been hit "to a certain extent" with "a few hundred" Hamas fighters killed during the ground offensive that began midway through the war, the intelligence officials said, speaking in return for customary anonymity. Hamas is still able to launch 20 to 30 rockets a day, including 5 to 10 missiles of ranges longer than 20 kilometers, or 12 miles, down by a third from the start of the war, they said.
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