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Israel wants to avoid Gaza War MIL/Agencies/Reuters, Jun 24, 2007. IRS/Dan Williams Jerusalem: June 24, 2007 (Sunday) – Keeping in view the strategy of Hamas mini-state in the Gaza Strip, Israel does not want to make any routine military offensive for the time being. On the contrary, it might have a plan of preparing for a major military offensive at the right time, which ultimately it has to strike. For the time, Israel neither want unnecessary casualties, not likes to take any step in a state of any confusion, it wants to deploy its diplomacy and tactics. This time the game is differently planned by Israel and they want a big success, they don’t want to cut a sorry figure by taking any military action in a hurry. In this context, a reference may be drawn on Reuters report by Dan Williams: Israel's assessments are that it would lose scores of troops in a full-on Gaza offensive, with a ten-fold death toll among the Palestinians, many of them civilians. Yet the Israeli defence official said Hamas's rout of Fatah rivals in Gaza's civil war also offered Israel hope for calm. "It's a paradox, but with Hamas in charge there are no more excuses -- no more rocket fire or gun attacks by 'splinter groups' that the Palestinan leadership can disavow. Hamas also has to refocus on the Gazan population's needs," he said. Even at the height of the skirmishes with Fatah, Hamas fighters kept away from the aid-dependent territory's crossings on the Israel frontier, apparently loath to trigger gunfights with border patrols and a punitive blockade of vital imports. A top Hamas official, Mahmoud al-Zahar, confirmed that his group was holding fire against the Jewish state it refuses to recognize, in parallel to seeking reconciliation with Fatah. "At the moment we have to deal with two enemies at the same time," Zahar told the German magazine Der Spiegel.
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