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.
07-30-2014, 11:44 AM
Israel public back Gaza assault despite death toll: analysts
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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