What is Hamas trying to achieve in Gaza?

There are efforts in this region to broker a truce: US secretary of State John Kerry is in Cairo – declaring Hamas has “a fundamental choice to make” – it should stop firing rockets.

The UN chief Ban Ki Moon has been in Tel Aviv meeting the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – stop fighting, he declared, start talking. But here, on the ground, neither side shows any side of backing down.

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