Israel’s offensive pushes on at ‘slow and grinding pace’ | Richard Spencer

“The Israelis want to move from a situation where they have a sort of rough ground control of Gaza, when they can stop this aerial bombardment to then doing more targeted raids on the tunnel network, more specific operation against Hamas.”

The Times’ Tel Aviv-based correspondent Richard Spencer says the Israeli army need “several more weeks” before they can move the conflict to its next stage.

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