On the eighth day the calm is over; fighting has been going on again in the Gaza Strip since Friday morning. Hostages are no longer exchanged for prisoners. Israel and Hamas are blaming each other for the end of the ceasefire after exactly one week. The people in the war zone are likely to face difficult weeks again, at least. And in Israel a report throws the… New York Times once again raises the question of how it could have gotten this far. A precise Hamas plan for a large-scale attack apparently ended up in the hands of the Israeli security services more than a year ago.
Middle East: New fighting between Israel and Palestinians – Politics
