Thursday Briefing: U.S. Assesses Israel’s War in Gaza

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Thursday Briefing: U.S. Assesses *******’s War in Gaza

******* has achieved its military goals in Gaza, U.S. officials said

Mediators, ******** negotiators and officials from around the world are expected to meet in Qatar today for a high-stakes push to end the war in Gaza.

Ahead of the meeting, U.S. officials have said that ******* has achieved all that it can militarily in Gaza. Their latest assessment is that continuing to ***** the enclave was only putting more civilian lives at risk, and that the possibility of further weakening ****** had diminished.

In many respects, *******’s military operation has done far more damage against ****** than U.S. officials predicted when the war began in October. ******** forces can now move freely throughout Gaza, the officials said, and ******* has destroyed or seized crucial supply routes from Egypt into Gaza.

About 14,000 combatants in Gaza have been ******* or captured, the ******** military said last month. The military also said that it had eliminated half the leadership of the Qassam Brigades, the military wing of ******, including some of the top leaders.

But current and former U.S. and ******** officials have said that one of *******’s biggest remaining goals — the return of the hostages — can’t be achieved with force.

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From Opinion: The court decision is a last-gasp attempt by the old guard to cling to an outdated status quo despite demands for change by millions of politically literate young Thais, Pavin Chachavalpongpun, a professor of Thai politics, wrote.

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