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Well, as the war in Gaza renews once again, Israel is making plans for *** potential major ground offensive in the strip. This plan, which is currently being crafted, could involve sending tens of thousands of Israeli troops into Gaza to clear and then occupy large swaths of land. This is according to an Israeli official and *** source familiar with the matter. It is important to note that this is just one possible scenario currently being considered and in fact one of the sources. He told me that this information is currently being leaked in order to try to pressure Hamas further at the negotiating table as the mediators try and revive the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. But this is *** real plan that Israel is considering. It would involve as many as 5 divisions of Israeli troops or about 50,000 soldiers as part of this offensive, unlike previously when Israel has carried out ground offensives and cleared certain areas of Hamas. Only to then retreat from those areas. Hamas reemerged because of *** lack of an alternative governance, the lack of Israeli troops in the area as well, and that then resulted in Israeli troops going back into Gaza, back into those very same areas that they had previously cleared of Hamas militants. And so this time Israeli officials are envisioning *** long term occupation of some of those areas which could, according to military experts, bog down the Israeli military in *** month. or even years long fight against insurgencies and *** long term occupation of large swaths of the Gaza Strip. It's not clear that the Israeli public has an appetite for such *** large scale return to war though. In fact, numerous polls have showed that *** majority of Israelis would prefer to see *** hostage deal that also ends the war in Gaza rather than *** return to this kind of an all-out war. But the Israeli prime minister's priority. may be in *** different place. His right wing governing coalition, key figures in it have been pushing for exactly this kind of *** large scale ground offensive in Gaza, long term occupation of the Gaza Strip as well. But even before any kind of large scale ground offensive happens, we've watched as Israeli troops have begun to carry out some ground operations in both northern and southern Gaza and also those air strikes very much still continuing. Two Palestinian journalists were in fact killed. By Israeli strikes on Monday, according to several Gaza journalist unions, this is the latest attack on journalists that we have seen play out in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli military had previously accused one of those journalists, Hossam Shabbat, of being linked to Hamas but provided no verifiable evidence of his active involvement with the group. CNN has reached out to Israeli authorities for comment on this story, Jeremy Diamond, CNN. Tel Aviv.