Israel has decided that its attacks on terrorist targets in Gaza will be carried out with great force and breadth, even at the cost of harming Israelis who are being held captive in Gaza, a senior government source tells reporters.

The source clarifies that if Israel has precise intelligence information on the location of Israeli captives, it will of course refrain from attacking in that specific location. But so long as no such information exists, all Hamas targets will be attacked.

[This is a sea change for Israel and a pretty bright flashing light on just how much the Gazan War has changed their calculations. At one time, Israel was willing to trade 1,000 Hamas terrorists for a single IDF soldier. That math was always unsustainable, and the Israelis have finally recalculated. They are also dispensing with warnings on bombing targets in Gaza City and elsewhere. This is not a police action; it is war. — Ed]