Gaza-based terror groups launched another round of attacks against Israeli troops and civilians this morning. Three IDF soldiers were injured by a likely roadside bomb along the border between Gaza and Israel, and terrorists also launched a rocket into southern Israeli towns. Palestinian terror groups in Gaza have fired 766 rockets and mortars into Israel thus far in 2012, up from 653 in 2011 and 238 in 2010. A TIP analysis recently outlined how those groups, including and especially Hamas, seem to be pursuing a strategy of escalation designed to drag Israel into a diplomatically costly ground war in the Gaza Strip.

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