Israeli Troops Backed by Airstrikes Move Deeper Into Gaza

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Israeli forces continued their military campaign in the Gaza Strip Monday as international calls for a cease-fire intensified. Foreign policy analysts mull the latest developments in the fighting.

JIM LEHRER: Next, the Gaza war. We begin with Independent Television News reports from Israel and Gaza from Juliet Bremner and Mark Austin. Gaza is first.

MARK AUSTIN: Huddled around a makeshift stove in a disused building, the children of Gaza surviving as best they can in what passes here for a safe house. Then, outside, while others played, this happened.

Another Israeli air strike close by. The truth is, nowhere is safe in Gaza right now. It's a desperate place for children at the best of times.

Israel insists it doesn't target children. Rather, it blame Hamas fighters who hide among them. But war like this seldom spares the innocent. And while daily now we see the physical damage done to tiny bodies, what we never see is the torment inflicted upon their minds.

ABDULLAH SHHADEH, doctor: It is a disaster. Actually, these children coming with blood on their face, on their bodies. They are carried by some other people. The father is killed or the mother is killed. And the man who is carrying the injured child doesn't know anything about the child.

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1. And who kills the most wins? This is not a military campaign it's

INSANE.