Host Simon Spungin is joined by Haaretz's chief military analyst, Amos Harel, and Muhammad Shehada, a writer and civil society activist from the Gaza Strip. More than a week into the fighting between Israel and the Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip, which has been accompanied by widespread disturbances among Israel's Palestinian citizens, we ask: Has Israel achieved anything in its attacks against Hamas targets in Gaza? What would be considered a victory for the Israeli side? Has Hamas already achieved everything it hoped to in this round of fighting? And is Israel, in fact, playing into the Islamist organization's ' hands?

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