The army would not say if the troops would go deeper into Gaza City, a move that presumably would lead to intense house-to-house fighting and heavy casualties on both sides.
Charleston is one of the few areas of Staten Island that has not experienced intense housing construction in the past 15 years.
In 1968 the area of the new town was enlarged and the official name changed to Telford, and intense housing and factory development transformed the area.
Recent developments of this kind have been built in Sloten and the Middelveldsche Akerpolder in the west, while in the east, in the old harbour district, intense housing construction began in the 1990s.
Many of these areas are facing pressure from developers amid intense housing construction in the city More than 60,000 building permits were issued in the last 40 months, more than in 1990 through 1998, according to the planning department.
She understands that there is an intense housing shortage in London, and is resigned to moving from the city where she has put down roots over the past 10 years, since she moved to the UK from the Gambia.
Last week, for instance, Nick Boles, the planning minister, blamed the rise of the four-generation family – rather than immigration – for an "intense" housing crisis that sees children in overcrowded houses and two-thirds of first-time buyers relying on help from parents.
Whilst the contemporary housing crisis is particular to the present, Britain has faced periods of intense housing struggle before.
While the contemporary housing crisis is particular to the present, Britain has faced periods of intense housing struggle before.
He walks me back to my hotel through the Croatian part of Mostar, past the front-line areas where the small-arms fighting was so intense -- house to house, wall to wall even -- that no one could tell who was shooting whom.
He then likened the "unprecedented level of dysfunction" in the White House to "a really intense haunted house, where every door you think is an exit is just a door to an even scarier room".
