JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert warned on Monday that Israel would hit militant leaders in Gaza over continuing rocket launchings from the Hamas-ruled territory. ‘We will climb up the chain of command in the organisations responsible for the fire,’ Olmert told a joint press conference with visiting Austrian Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer. ‘We will not hesitate to reach anyone who threatens the residents in the south, whoever they are and whereever they are,’ he said.| Stop talking about it and start doing it. The Paleos then will listen. From Damascus. |
The radical Palestinian group Islamic Jihad in a statement admitted responsibility for the attacks following ‘Zionist threats.’
Tzahi Hanegbi, chairman of the Israeli parliament’s defence and foreign affairs committee, said the attacks proved that ‘sooner or later the army needs to launch a large-scale operation in the Gaza Strip to stop them.’