The ceasefire that the United States had hoped might end the Gaza war broke open Friday with the abduction of an Israeli officer.
The capture of Hadar Goldin, a second lieutenant in the Israel Defense Force who grew up in the United Kingdom, has restarted a war that has already claimed more than 1,300 lives and leveled city blocks in the densely populated Gaza Strip. It is also for Israel a bitter reminder of its adversary’s favored tactic in recent years: abductions.
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