JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's launch of a ground invasion in the Gaza Strip on Thursday is not aimed at toppling the Palestinian territory's dominant Islamist Hamas group, an army spokesman said.
"That is not the goal of this mission," Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Lerner told reporters.
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