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It's nearly two weeks since Hamas, in effect, declared war on Israel.

The Israeli's stated goal as of today is the destruction of Hamas,

and troops and tanks are sitting on the border

with the tiny but densely populated

enclave of Gaza waiting for the order to go in. But what happens next? And what happens after that?

Step inside the briefing room and together we'll try to find out.

Firstly, there's been talk of an Israeli ground offensive in Gaza for several days now, but it hasn't happened yet.

Why not? Shashank Joshi is Defence Editor at The Economist.

Shashank Joshi, before we start talking about what would or could happen if there is a ground war in Gaza,

what is the latest we know about the Gaza hospital blast? We have three main pieces of evidence and the most important one is the

images from the site. And what those images show is that there is little indication of the

kind of damage we would have expected from an Israeli

airstrike. There's no big crater, for instance. There's no huge damage to the upper side of

vehicles or roofs you might expect from an air burst bomb. It is more consistent with what

the Israeli claim is that this was a malfunctioning Hamas rocket. There are two other pieces

of evidence which are

slightly less solid. One is the voice intercepts of militants from Islamic Jihad, a Palestinian

group talking about their rocket launch. And I know that Western officials are looking

into those very closely. And the third piece, which I take seriously, is the American claim

that their satellites saw the

infrared emissions, the infrared signs of the launch at the time. And that contributed to Joe

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