PREAMBLE: After four weeks of fighting, Tuesday saw a planned 72-hour truce hold, and Israeli and Palestinian delegations prepare for indirect negotiations on a longer-term ceasefire.
Having destroyed 32 cross-border tunnels, the IDF pulled out of Gaza, but forces remained deployed near the Strip with Operation Protective Edge not formally over.
Israeli soldiers return from the Gaza Strip on August 05, 2014. (Photo credit: Dave Buimovitch/Flash90)
63 percent of Israeli respondents are satisfied with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s handling of Operation Protective Edge, but Israelis are more divided about the results of the conflict to date, a Channel 2 poll showed.
A slim majority of 44% believe Israel wasn’t victorious, and 42% say that it was. Thirty percent are of the opinion that Israel’s security increased, whereas 27% say that it didn’t.
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