Israeli airstrikes killed Hamas's top military commander and targeted numerous militant sites in the Gaza Strip, leaving at least six others dead in the largest offensive against the Palestinian in four years, Joshua Mitnick writes. The operation against Ahmed Jabari marked a dramatic escalation and the diplomatic fallout could affect relations between the Jewish state and the newly elected Muslim Brotherhood government in Egypt, he writes, as well as a bid by the Palestinian Authority for United Nations' statehood recognition later this month. Read Mitnick's full article here.

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