Haartez is reporting that Israeli troops are going into Gaza, and Israel Defense Forces Major Avital Leibovitch said, "The objective is to destroy the Hamas terror infrastructure in the area of operations,...We are going to take some of the launch areas used by Hamas."
[source : http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1052299.html ]
Let's just have a quick reminder of what has happened.
Haaretz recently stated that the current operation was planned six months ago.
During that time offers of a more permanent ceasefire made by Hamas were rejected by Israel. This has recently been stated by the United Nations Special Rapporteur Professor Richard Falk. Israel also did not keep its side of the deal brokered by Egypt, which was to gradually ease the blockade.
[source : http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-falk/understanding-the-gaza-ca_b_154777.html ]
Then on 4th November 2008 Israel officially broke the deal and invaded Gaza, allegedly to destroy tunnels used to smuggle food into Gaza.
As a result the number of rockets fired from Gaza increased, but did not kill anyone.
This consequence of the invasion of Gaza on the 4th November may well have given the Israelis a much better idea of the military logistics of Hamas in Gaza; where rockets were stored, who was involved, etc.
And with the fact that Ehud Barak's wet dream is to invade Gaza, all this leads me to suspect that no matter what happened, Israel was goin' in.
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