The drums of war are again beating in Gaza. Blasts from the Israeli Air Force’s strikes echoed almost throughout the Strip early Monday, while again alarms blared on the Israeli side of the fence shortly after 4 a.m. Three rockets were launched, one of which landed inside Gaza.

It is like a bad movie that the viewers — Israelis and Palestinians alike — are forced to watch over and over, and whose dire ending, barring any unexpected development, everyone already knows.

The military says it struck nine targets associated with Hamas and other terror groups. Among them were a structure belonging to Hamas’s maritime forces that Israel has already blasted many times, a training facility for Hamas’s military wing, and a weapons manufacturing facility. This list seems to have already featured in previous rounds of combat.

Read the full article in the Times of Israel.