Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140718:01:52:00
Richard, i have to ask you, what is israel hoping to accomplish here? >> reporter: israel has made it very clear what it hopes to do, which is to eliminate tunnels that hamas has dug and hamas has used to go under the border from gaza into israel to carry out attacks against israeli soldiers and israeli towns. israel says that is the goal. that is why it's sending in tanks, artillery, combat engineers to destroy these tunnels. it's a somewhat limited ground operation on surt fthe surface . israel says it's not going to come here to the center of gaza city, which is a densely populated area, it...
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