JERUSALEM, Israel – Israel has begun its new campaign to strike Hamas across wider areas of the Gaza Strip and permanently remove the terror group's power.
As explosions tore through the night skies, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared, "As we promised, we have launched a powerful campaign against Hamas, 'Gideon's Chariots.' IDF forces are simply entering with force into the Gaza Strip with a dual goal: defeating Hamas and freeing our hostages."
The damage is devastating. However, the military campaign appears to be achieving one key goal: to isolate Hamas and destroy its leadership as a strategy to free the hostages and erase the Hamas threat.
Displaced Palestinian refugee Tamer Hussin stated, "Nights of terror, every day is terror. We live in terror, we wake up in terr