Watch: Driving through Gaza streets hit by Israeli strikes

This could get out of hand very quickly.
An impossible situation to resolve peacefully. And yet further open direct combat could bring about undesired consequences.
Is there anyone that can design a sensible, balanced end result?
I think not.

Excellent post. Thank You for sharing this shipmate. This is alarming. The Gaza Strip has been a dangerous area for years. I recall passing through there once on a tour bus in 1993. I'm sure Hamas has something to do with that attack.

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel you play... you pay...
..."Until this morning fighting was still going on in the kibbutz, which is one of the Israeli communities along the border with Gaza. That's why only now are they collecting the bodies of its Israeli residents who were killed when Hamas broke through the border wire from Gaza early on Saturday morning.

Soldiers who spent much of the day in the ruins recovering bodies of civilians said that there had been a massacre. It seems likely that much of the killing happened in the first hours of the assault on Saturday.

The Israeli army, caught off guard, took 12 hours to get to the kibbutz, said Davidi Ben Zion, the deputy commander of Unit 71, an experienced team of paratroopers who led the assault.

"Thank God we saved many lives of many parents and children," he said. "Unfortunately, some were burned by Molotov [cocktails]. They are very aggressive, like animals."...