Palestinians inspect the rubble of houses destroyed in the Israeli air strike that killed senior Hamas leader Nizar Rayan in his Gaza home. Mamud Hams / AFP / GettyFrom Time Magazine:
As Israel prepared to launch its assault into Gaza in late December, it braced for substantial casualties among its own troops. Commanders warned their men of Hamas' suicide commandos, missiles that could smash tanks and knock helicopters out of the sky, and long-range rockets that could reach deeper into Israel. Yet, when the dust had settled, the Islamist militants' primary military achievement had been to maintain its rocket fire into Israel throughout the 22-day conflict. Of the 10 Israeli soldiers killed in Gaza, four were victims of friendly fire accidents.
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