What is happening in Israel and the Gaza Strip?

The BBC answers all of your questions, including:

• What is Hamas?
• What is the Gaza Strip?
• What is Palestine and what have these events got to do with it?
• Why are Israel and Hamas fighting?
• How unprecedented is this attack?
• Is this a major Israeli intelligence failure?

Read more here.

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