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Two years on, the true faces of the Israeli-Palestinian war have emerged
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A boy running as a building collapsed following an Israeli air strike in the west of Gaza City on Sept 5.
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LONDON – When Hamas infiltrators struck Israel at the crack of dawn on Saturday, Oct 7, 2023, nobody – not the Israelis or Palestinians, nor anyone elsewhere in the world – believed this would trigger Israel’s longest war since the creation of a Jewish state.
The overriding tactic of all previous Israeli governments has always been to rely on their superior and highly mobile military to administer a quick blow to their enemies and then try to return to normality.
