Israel wages ground campaign in Gaza, communications blackout eases
ISRAEL is expanding ground operations in Gaza and its fighter jets have struck hundreds more Hamas targets, the Israeli military said, in what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called the second phase of a three-week-old war. Telephone and internet communications were partially restored in Gaza after a more than day-long blackout that had badly impacted rescue operations as Israel pounded targets of the militant Hamas group that controls the territory. "Israel cut us off from the world in order to wipe us out, but we are hearing the sounds of explosions and we are proud the resistance fighters have stopped them at…
