A “botched” undercover Israeli special forces operation in Gaza that left eight people dead has sparked a string of rocket and mortar attacks between Israel and Palestinian militants.
Israeli special forces killed seven Hamas militants and lost a lieutenant colonel during the raid late on Sunday night, the “first known ground incursion there by Israeli forces since the last war in 2014”, The Guardian reports.
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