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Livni wants to rethink Gaza truce in wake of Qassam barrages
By Amos Harel, Avi Issacharoff and Yanir Yagna
Tags: tzipi livni, qassam 

Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said she intends to request an urgent meeting with the minister of defense and the prime minister, to reevaluate the cease-fire with Hamas.

Referring a barrage of more than 20 Qassam rockets and mortar shells fired at Israel by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip over the weekend, Livni said: "The agreement isn't being observed by the other side anyway."

No injuries or damage were reported in the attacks, and Israeli security forces refrained from retaliating.
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One of the rockets landed in the industrial zone of Ashkelon, north of the Gaza Strip. Two more rockets landed near Sderot in the evening.

In a separate incident, a Palestinian militant affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine died in the Gaza Strip while planting a bomb near the border fence with Israel. Apparently, the bomb went off prematurely, killing the man on the spot.

In recent weeks the cease-fire between Israel and the militants in Gaza, which was reached in the summer, has been violated frequently, increasing speculation that the situation may soon return to the levels of violence before the truce came into effect.

Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Saturday that he has suspended the transfer of goods from Israel into the Gaza Strip because of the militants' persistent rocket attacks on Israeli population centers. Border crossings to Gaza have remained mostly closed since the beginning of November due to the militants' attacks.

Hamas has so far refrained from officially claiming responsibility for attacks on Israel.

Barak Ravid contributed to this article.

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      1.   LIVNI IS THINKING? YOU MUST BE JOKING!!!!!!!!!!!! 04:41  |  Jim a Gentile 07/12/08
      2.   Olmert and Barak have become Christians? 05:31  |  Kagan 07/12/08
      3.   Reevaluate, and then keep talking about Gaza. 05:57  |  Fortuna Benmayor 07/12/08
      4.   "re-evaluate"? Must be an election year 06:05  |  Arie 07/12/08
      5.   A sudden surge of concern by livni? 06:08  |  Arie 07/12/08
      6.   terrorist dies from "work accident" 06:10  |  Arie 07/12/08
      7.   Wait a Minute! 06:24  |  Mark of Lewiston 07/12/08
      8.   expect more hemming and hawing until the next barrage... 06:51  |  Akiva P 07/12/08
      9.   Livni is very quick off the mark isnt she 07:16  |  zionist forever 07/12/08
      10.   Livni thinking ?! 07:24  |  DT 07/12/08
      11.   Barak Killed the Cease Fire 07:38  |  Mark of Lewiston 07/12/08
      12.   Don`t you need a brain to think? 08:32  |  Jewish Sharpshooter 07/12/08
      13.   Livni should also take into account that... 08:46  |  Esther 07/12/08
      14.   What`s there to think? Finish the disengagement 08:51  |  Israeli 07/12/08
      15.   Barak needs to resign now! He has no stomach for the job! 08:58  |  redmike 07/12/08
      16.   Livni wants to rethink 11:32  |  Ralph 07/12/08
      17.   The Arabs must be laughing their heads off while Livni is thinkin 11:45  |  PETER SM 07/12/08
      18.   5~Arie `A sudden serge of concern by Livni`. 14:10  |  Akram Zekaria 07/12/08
      19.   FREE GILAD SHALIT! 15:15  |  Jonathan 07/12/08
      20.   Barak and ceasing the cease fire 17:39  |  Mark Lincoln 07/12/08
      21.   Mark of L. #11: why would Barak want to do that? 18:15  |  ivo 07/12/08
      22.   What a sad infrastructure 19:17  |  loner 07/12/08
      23.   #11 Mark of Lewiston and the free fire zone 19:54  |  Lynn 07/12/08
      24.   Lynn - there was no need to break the cease fire 21:28  |  Mark Lincoln 07/12/08
      25.   Mark Lincoln #20: what decision? when? 21:49  |  ivo 07/12/08
      26.   Write on, Lynn 22:36  |  observer 07/12/08
      27.   What Truce??? 22:40  |  Baruch Gold 07/12/08
      28.   What`s to Rethink? Free some more Palestinians 23:01  |  Barack Obama 07/12/08
      29.   The Truce Expires In 12 Days Anyway 23:18  |  Jeff Northridge 07/12/08
      30.   14 Israeli - Best Idea on the Board 23:45  |  Mark of Lewiston 07/12/08
      31.   Livni - She Should Also Rethink Giving the Golan to Assad 00:45  |  Tod Zuckerman 08/12/08
      32.   Birdbrain Livni doesn`t realize there is no truce to rethink. 01:00  |  Chaim 08/12/08
      33.   #23 Well, Gosh!, Lynn..... 01:09  |  Johnboy 08/12/08
      34.   Haaretz Moderator 01:16  |  Mark of Lewiston 08/12/08
      35.   Livni vs B & O 01:34  |  Brod 08/12/08
      36.   One has to Wonder 02:26  |  Mark of Lewiston 08/12/08
      37.   There is No Gaza Truce and Never Was 04:57  |  Mark Hamil 08/12/08
      38.   Barak nixed 2008 deployment of Phalanx Mark of L... 05:00  |  BBSNews 08/12/08
      39.   Livni is waking up. 05:01  |  Dudka 08/12/08
      40.   What truce?? 06:08  |  Webster 08/12/08
      41.   The whole world knows 07:52  |  Jim 08/12/08
      42.   What boloney from Tzipi Livni 08:48  |  Dutch 08/12/08
      43.   31, Jim well said 09:22  |  Dutch 08/12/08
      44.   our president 14:49  |  dwight 08/12/08
      45.   A former poster here used to say...... 21:05  |  Nemesis 08/12/08
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