Posted on 12/31/2008 2:29:34 PM PST by NCjim
JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Prime Minister Ehud Olmert vowed Wednesday that Israel's air assault on Gaza would not end until Hamas militants quit firing rockets into Israeli territory.
"We did not enter this operation in order to end it with the firing still continuing," Olmert said in a security cabinet meeting, according to a senior government official.
"Hamas broke this cease-fire," Olmert said. "If the conditions ripen" and if there is a solution "that promises a better security ... we will consider it, but we are not there yet," he said, according to the official.
Despite a French proposal for a humanitarian truce, Israel earlier Wednesday decided to continue the operation, saying Israelis must have a "real and sustainable solution," Olmert spokesman Mark Regev said.
Israeli airstrikes have pounded the territory since Saturday in an effort to halt the firing of rockets into southern Israel.
More than 390 Palestinians have been killed, according to Palestinian medical sources, and some 1,900 people have been wounded, including 400 women and children.
Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniya, whose office in Gaza was struck overnight, said Israel needed to "stop attacking and killing our children, women and men."
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I am confused, I thought Olmert had resigned as Prime Minister and Tzipi Livni had taken over.
Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniya, whose office in Gaza was struck overnight, said Israel needed to “stop attacking and killing our children, women and men.”
But for years now it’s been OK for Hamas to launch rockets at Israeli children, women and men?? I hope Israel squashes this guy next time around.
Correction, No peace in Israel until Islam is eradicated from the face of the Earth
I think that he does not actually leave office until some time in February 2009.
This is good.
There was some talk a few months back of Olmert resigning in the wake of several scandals, but he did not. Livni is still the foreign minister.
No peas in Gaza until the area is fit for planting.
the only thing that will stop the Hamas rockets is if Hamas no longer exists.
I think that is entirely unreasonable. Why can't the Palies keep lobbing missiles at Israeli civilians without having to fear reprisal?
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some 1,900 people have been wounded, including 400 women and children
that should be followed by “which cowardly Hamas has been hiding behind”
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