Friday's resumption of hostilities may see
Hamas overplay its hand in a
dangerous poker game that could plunge Gaza back into chaos, analysts said. Palestinian militants fired two rockets at Israel in the final hours of a 72-hour truce and followed it up with dozens more as Israel hit back with unrelenting air strikes. Israel endured its worst military losses -- 64 soldiers -- since its 2006 war against Hezbollah in Leba**n -- and three civilians -- one of them a Thai agricultural worker -- were killed on the home front. Indirect talks between the Israelis and Palestinians, whose delegation includes Hamas, have stretched for days in
Cairo but Egyptian mediators have struggled to reconcile conflicting demands.
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