Mofaz orders military operations in the Gaza Strip
JERUSALEM - the Israeli Minister for Shaoul Mofaz Defense gave order Saturday to the army to carry out a series of operations in the Gaza Strip and to strike the infrastructures of the radical groups, announced the public radio.
Mr. Mofaz, who discussed on several occasions in the night by telephone with the Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, ordered with the forces armed to carry out a series of hard operations in the Gaza Strip stressing that the response of Israel to the shootings against its territory was to be unambiguous, indicated the radio.
He also gave order to engage an offensive against the infrastructures of Hamas and Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip and in the West Bank, including a continuous air offensive, and to concentrate troops close to the northern sector of the Gaza Strip, always according to the radio.
Mr. Mofaz made this decision at a meeting with the persons in charge for Defense and the army at his office in Tel-Aviv.
ALARM - Strong explosion heard in Gaza
GAZA - a strong explosion of indeterminée origin was heard Saturday in the town of Gaza, brings back a correspondent of AFP.
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