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'Guardian of the Walls' wasn't the resounding victory the IDF had hoped for


Judah Ari Gross is The Times of Israel s military correspondent.
A soldier from the Israeli military s Home Front Command walks outside a house in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon that had been struck by a Hamas rocket on May 20, 2021. (Edi Israel/FLASH90)
The 11 days of fighting in Gaza that made up what the Israel Defense Forces calls Operation Guardian of the Walls constituted the first major conflict overseen by army chief Aviv Kohavi. The results were at best a mixed bag, despite claims by military and political leaders of unprecedented achievements.
On a strictly military basis, in this round of fighting, Israel emerged the clear victor. The IDF destroyed large amounts of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad weaponry and infrastructure and killed over 200 of their members, including senior leaders. The underground tunnels that represented the primary challenge for Israel before and during the 2014 Gaza war were not only not a threat, but were instead a liabil ....

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Residents of Gaza border town told to remain in shelters as rocket fire persists


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Israeli soldiers from Home Front Command visit families inside a bomb shelter in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, on May 18, 2021. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)
Residents of Israeli communities adjacent to the Gaza Strip were ordered by the military to remain in bomb shelters for some four hours on Thursday as terror groups in the coastal enclave continued to launch barrages of mortar shells and rockets at civilian areas.
After an eight-hour lull overnight, rocket sirens began ringing almost non-stop from 9 a.m. Thursday through the evening hours, even as reports of a ceasefire began picking up steam.
Amid an increase in mortar fire on Thursday afternoon, the military instructed all residents of Israeli communities within four kilometers (2.5 miles) of the Gaza border to enter into bomb shelters and not leave until further notice. After over four hours, at 9:45 p.m., Gaza border town residents were permitted to leave their bomb shelters, but were ins ....

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