Palestinians mourn by the bodies of relatives killed in Israeli bombardment, at the al-Najjar hospital in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. Photo: AFP
A senior Hamas official told AFP on Thursday that Israel would fail to meet its stated goals of defeating the Palestinian militant group and freeing hostages by invading the southern Gaza city Rafah."Even if (Israel) enters and invades Rafah, it will not achieve what it wants," Ghazi Hamad said in an interview over the phone...