Latest flareup between Israel and Hamas in Gaza is a lot of flash bang and a few deaths.

BBC:

More than 460 rockets have been fired into Israel by militants since Monday night, while Israeli aircraft have hit 160 militant targets in response.

Seven Palestinians, several of them militants, died in the strikes on Gaza, while a Palestinian civilian was killed in a rocket attack in southern Israel.

Later, Palestinian militant groups said Egypt had brokered a ceasefire.

The military wing of Hamas, the Islamist movement that dominates Gaza, said it would "abide by this declaration as long as the Zionist enemy commits to it".

A senior Israeli official appeared to confirm the report. Israeli media quoted the official as saying: "Israel maintains its right to act. Requests from Hamas for a ceasefire came through four different mediators.

"Israel responded that the events on the ground will decide [how it proceeds]."

The escalation began when an undercover Israeli special forces operation inside Gaza was exposed on Sunday. A Hamas commander was among seven militants killed in clashes, and an Israeli lieutenant-colonel in the undercover unit also died.

Recently there had been signs that the UN and Egypt had made progress in an effort to secure a truce on the Gaza border, where more than 200 Palestinians have been killed in protests since March.

The Israeli military has been accused of using excessive force against protesters, but has said its soldiers have only opened fire in self-defence or on potential attackers trying to infiltrate its territory.
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Things started going downhill in Gaza as soon as the Israelis ended their occupation of the area.  The low functioning people who took control of Gaza destroyed greenhouses left behind by Israe3l which could have been used to grow food for the people and add to the local economy.  They instead decided on a movement toward war with a superior force in Israel and provoked attacks every few months while digging tunnels to use to kidnap Israelis.  In recent weeks the Palestinian terrorists have been trying to provoke the Israeli border guards with assaults on the border and a firebombing campaign against Israeli farms.

In the current back and forth, the Israelis killed some of those it believed responsible for the attacks in a surgical commando raid.  That accounts for most of the deaths.  The rockets from Gaza and the Israeli bombs appear to be doing more damage to property than to humans.  The reality is that Israel has the capacity to destroy everyone in Gaza and does not, while Hamas wants to destroy every Israeli, but lacks the capacity.