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| Israel maintains tight grip on Gaza Strip | |
| 2008-12-08 | |
| Israeli's outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday slammed Jewish settlers in Hebron even as he ordered security chiefs to draw up contingency plans for military action against resistance groups in Gaza although there have been no deaths as a result of the rocket and mortar fire of the past week. Olmert called the settler rampages against Palestinians a 'pogrom'--a Yiddish term for anti-Jewish massacres--in Sunday's cabinet meeting.
Olmert added that the defense minister will take action to curb the "phenomenon" of settler rioters. Jewish settler attacked Palestinians in Hebron last Thursday after an Israeli court ruled they were to evacuate a disputed building. Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni echoed Omert's call for a harsher Israeli response to rocket attacks directed at Israel from Gaza Strip. "The truce has not been respected by the other side. They are firing on our citizens," Livni said Sunday, adding that Israel's response should be "militarily, economically and politically" inclusive. Hamas spokesperson Fawzi Bahum accused "the Zionist enemy of continuing its aggression against Gaza by systematically violating terms of the truce." The six-month-long Egyptian-brokered ceasefire between Hamas and Israel is due to end Dec. 19 without extensions. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 outgoing? How come he ain't "outgone"? |
| Posted by: Spot 2008-12-08 08:07 |