The army's mounting
death toll in
Gaza has taken the Israeli
public by surprise but without dampening its strong support for the military campaign against Hamas,
analysts say. Funerals were held across the Jewish state on Tuesday for 10 soldiers killed the day before, five of them in a firefight with Palestinian militants who infiltrated
Israel by a tunnel from Gaza. Four others were killed after a mortar shell exploded **t far inside
Israel and a**ther in fighting in the
Gaza Strip. An overwhelming "86.5 percent believes that
Israel can**t agree to a ceasefire as long as Hamas continues to fire rockets on Israel, as long as all the tunnels have **t been discovered and as long as Hamas refuses to surrender," it said.
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