Meanwhile, back in Gaza...

...After dawn Tuesday, Israeli troops spread out into a second area of Gaza City, taking up positions east of the Jabaliya neighborhood, an area militants often use to fire rockets.

Israeli bulldozers plowed through farms, ripping up irrigation systems and destroying greenhouses and fields, Palestinian security officials said. A transformer that provides about 60 percent of the power to the Zeitoun neighborhood was destroyed.

The army confirmed that there was an ongoing operation in the city, but declined to provide further details...
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Nobody likes collective punishment. Sometimes you have to experience it in your own generation, I suspect, to understand that. What goes around, comes around.

"The violence in Gaza has been accompanied in recent months by increasing poverty brought on by international sanctions slapped on the Hamas-led government that took power in March."

Personally, I don't think starving them into submission is going to work. Call it a hunch...