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Barak: Hamas will pay for its escalation in the south
By Yuval Azoulay, Haaretz Correspondent and News Agencies
Tags: Gaza, Israel, Sderot, Qassam

Defense Minster Ehud Barak on Friday blamed Hamas for the escalating violence in the south, and said the Islamic movement would bear the consequences of it.

"Hamas is directly responsible for the current situation and will be the one to bear the cost of our response", Barak said during a visit to Ashkelon, adding that "an Israeli response is necessary and will be carried out."

The defense minister spoke in the wake of escalating rocket attacks that peaked Thursday with a direct hit on a home in Ashkelon, and Israel Defense Forces operations against militants which killed at least 18 Palestinians on the same day.
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During his visit to the port town, Barak was debriefed by officers from the Southern Command, the Israel Police, rescue services officials and the mayor of Ashkelon on steps being taken in the city in light of the present security situation.

Barak also visited a house in the city hit by a Katyusha on Thursday.

Also Friday, the chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee said the IDF must reoccupy part of the Gaza Strip for an unlimited time and overthrow the Hamas government.

"The State of Israel must make a strategic decision to order the IDF to prepare quickly to topple the Hamas terror regime and take over all the areas from which rockets are fired on Israel," MK Tzachi Hanegbi (Kadima) told Israel Radio. He said the IDF should prepare to remain in those areas for years.

MK Gideon Sa'ar (Likud) said his party would back an invasion of Gaza, though he fell short of advocating reoccupation.

"There is no doubt that the security response needs to include a ground component," said Sa'ar. He said the "takeover of territory in the northern Strip" from which the Palestinians launch rockets at Israel would reduce the barrages from Gaza.

Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai went as far as threatening a "shoah,"
the Hebrew word for holocaust or disaster. The word is generally used to refer to the Nazi Holocaust, but a spokesman for Vilnai said the deputy defense minister used the word in the sense of "disaster," saying "he did not mean to make any allusion to the genocide."

"The more Qassam fire intensifies and the rockets reach a longer range, [the Palestinians] will bring upon themselves a bigger shoah because we will use all our might to defend ourselves," Vilnai told Army Radio on Friday.

Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri said of Vilnai's comments: "We are facing new Nazis who want to kill and burn the Palestinian people."

Palestinians in Gaza fired about a dozen Grad rockets Thursday on the southern port city of Ashkelon, some 15 kilometers north of the Strip. A 17-year-old girl was lightly hurt in the rocket attacks and several others suffered from shock. The day before, a Sapir College student was killed in a rocket attack on Sderot. Fighting in Gaza also continued Thursday, with at least 18 Palestinians, including five boys and a 6-month-old baby, killed in Gaza air strikes.

Israeli military analysts say that as Ashkelon becomes a permanent target of Hamas missile attacks, an Israeli ground offensive is becoming inevitable and likely to occur sooner rather than later.

Such an offensive seemed to move one step closer Thursday, with Barak declaring that such an operation was "a real likelihood" - although he told Quartet representatives that it was not imminent, a position that appeared to be echoed by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

Barak also ordered rocket alert sirens activated in Ashkelon for the first time, starting Friday.

"The major ground operation is real and tangible," Barak told his security chiefs during a meeting Thursday, according to sources who took part in the meeting. "We are not afraid of it."

Meretz-Yahad chairman MK Yossi Beilin advocated a diplomatic solution rather than a military one.

"My solution is to reach a cease-fire with Hamas," said Beilin, who said Israel should also continue negotiation with the Palestinian Authority.

Beilin said Hamas has expressed an interest in a truce over the last few weeks and that it was irresponsible of Israel not to respond to them.

"There have been at least two requests from Hamas, via a third party, to accept a cease-fire," he said.

The government, for its part, has been sending mixed messages regarding the possibility of a ground offensive in Gaza.

Olmert appeared to suggest that a major Israeli ground operation against militants in the Gaza Strip was not imminent, saying Israel's fight against them was a "long process" and that there was "no magic formula" to halt frequent rocket attacks.

Public Security Minister Avi Dichter, who visited Sderot on Thursday, rejected proposals to reoccupy the Gaza Strip, calling them "populist ideas which I don't agree with, and in my opinion, no intelligent person does either."

Nonetheless, Israel's Foreign Ministry spokesman later said the violence "may leave us no choice" but to send troops back in, two and a half years after Israel ended its occupation of Gaza.

Early Thursday evening, a Katyusha-type rocket struck an apartment building in Ashkelon, crashing through the roof and slicing through three floors. No casualties were reported.

In another Grad-missile attack on Ashkelon, a 17-year-old girl was lightly hurt and several other people were treated for shock.

A senior Israeli security official said that the rockets fired into Ashkelon have been Iranian-made imports, with a range of about 22 kilometers, but some locally made rockets have fallen on the southern outskirts of the city.

The missiles, known as Grads, are taken apart, smuggled into Gaza through tunnels, and reassembled. But Hamas has only a limited supply, the source said.

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      2.   Invade Gaza? 09:01  |  Ben 29/02/08
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      4.   Beilin - Amazing Lack of Guilt and Abundance of Arrogance 09:03  |  Tod Zuckerman 29/02/08
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      6.   OLMERT IS A FAILED LEADER 09:27  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 29/02/08
      7.   MK Beilin: Hamas has recently made two truce offers via third par 09:33  |  Esther 29/02/08
      8.   When and for how long? 09:36  |  sandra chitayat 29/02/08
      9.   Controlled Civil Uprising is a must 09:38  |  Atilla Karagözoğlu 29/02/08
      10.   ISRAEL IS DYING OF THE PEACE PROCESS 09:46  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 29/02/08
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      17.   "Oslo" Beilin lives in a world of his own 11:07  |  Johanan 29/02/08
      18.   Holocaust 11:08  |  ana 29/02/08
      19.   threat of a holocaust? 11:09  |  danalogue 29/02/08
      20.   Beiln--Pathetic 11:21  |  Israeli 29/02/08
      21.   Beware Stalingrad 11:22  |  Clickfool 29/02/08
      22.   Use of the Holocaust 11:32  |  J Steiner 29/02/08
      23.   #9 boris the clucking fool and convenient history 11:44  |  v hardman 29/02/08
      24.   Matan Vilnai`s holocaust 11:45  |  Cpt. Jack 29/02/08
      25.   # 6 Ms. Ana 11:45  |  Palestinian 29/02/08
      26.   Don`t u see - we destroy ourselves 11:46  |  Dan 29/02/08
      27.   Government in slow motion 11:53  |  Sam 29/02/08
      28.   Vilna`i must be fired immediately. 12:01  |  The Judge 29/02/08
      29.   sweep hamas and hizbollah 12:04  |  ghassan 29/02/08
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      31.   This `holocaust` comment is shaking the world right now. 12:06  |  Doron 29/02/08
      32.   Strike down hard and close the game 12:09  |  IDF and IAF fans D. 29/02/08
      33.   Am I wrong? 12:10  |  Eric WIlson 29/02/08
      34.   "Holocaust" an unfit description 12:17  |  Robert Haymond 29/02/08
      35.   Temporary cease fire 12:18  |  Robin 29/02/08
      36.   Dear Maureen Ann down under in Aussieland 12:20  |  Joe Sittizen 29/02/08
      37.   which world is oisrael living in...? 12:22  |  ravi 29/02/08
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      41.   Finally, Israel says what it means!!!! 12:30  |  Ahmed 29/02/08
      42.   Holocaust is an unfortunate word! 12:39  |  Michael 29/02/08
      43.   The real enemy is not in Gaza but in Tehran 12:41  |  Jonathan S 29/02/08
      44.   Fascism 12:45  |  ME Citizen 29/02/08
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      56.   #31, Jonathan S 13:54  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 29/02/08
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      61.   Nu, what a choice of words 14:02  |  A mother 29/02/08
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      120.   HELLO ! FINALY MY PART OF THIS FIGHT BEGINS 15:49  |  DEVIL 29/02/08
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      193.   # 56 jb..Predictable and Infantile Response by jb.. 17:22  |  JOSH 29/02/08
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      196.   The Diplomatic Solution 17:31  |  Jimmie 29/02/08
      197.   #62 Disgusted you forgot Israeli Drs Helping Muslims in Darfur 17:31  |  Robert/Montreal 29/02/08
      198.   #70 Glenn a gr8 idea but no Arab country wants to deal with it. 17:36  |  Robert/Montreal 29/02/08
      199.   hey johnboy! 17:36  |  Tziril Esther 29/02/08
      200.   stop yapping and bomb them. 17:37  |  anup 29/02/08
      201.   Re Avi #55 17:39  |  Esther 29/02/08
      202.   have a good weekend everyone, BIG BIG PROMLEM THERE 17:40  |  ... 29/02/08
      203.   escalation 17:42  |  rm 29/02/08
      204.   Pound them from the outside 17:44  |  KUTW 29/02/08
      205.   Bottom line - pulverize Gaza and everything in it. 17:45  |  Pssd off American. 29/02/08
      206.   To #1 17:48  |  Ari 29/02/08
      207.   atilla is fine. atilla loves lynn. haaretz shut up atilla. 17:51  |  simple life 29/02/08
      208.   The dirty work 17:51  |  KUTW 29/02/08
      209.   arabs on a treadmill 17:53  |  peter 29/02/08
      210.   Does Nasrallah and Israel use the same... 17:59  |  Aphemia 29/02/08
      211.   # 40 Linthwaite......you`re right 18:01  |  Lynn 29/02/08
      212.   PR firm? 18:02  |  Aphemia 29/02/08
      213.   How should Haaretz deal with Slowman? 18:02  |  Ham Barak 29/02/08
      214.   PREPARE IN THE NORTH - IRAN`S PLAN 18:04  |  ZADOK 29/02/08
      215.   Re Cipora #10..... lagging, not dying.... 18:05  |  Esther 29/02/08
      216.   The screaming MKs need a brain 18:08  |  Tosefta 29/02/08
      217.   @10, cipora, french amb. to UK did say it openly 18:25  |  vladimir 29/02/08
      218.   Reply to Esther (Post No. 79) 18:26  |  Johnny Weintraub 29/02/08
      219.   Self Defense 18:26  |  Yerimiah 29/02/08
      220.   @11, vitalik, hanegbi is a son of very good mother geula 18:26  |  vladimir 29/02/08
      221.   Clickfool # 21 18:38  |  ernie 29/02/08
      222.   #56; Johnboy This ones for you 1st try 18:39  |  Doc Holliday 29/02/08
      223.   let the guilty speak "shoah" 18:42  |  Palestinian 29/02/08
      224.   Glenn, you are chasing your tail (with Robert) 18:43  |  Ibrahim 29/02/08
      225.   @25, pal. there could not be 1 state with animals like you. 18:44  |  v 29/02/08
      226.   Tziril Esther. #78 18:46  |  Roo 29/02/08
      227.   Evacuation 18:50  |  American Christian 29/02/08
      228.   #80 rm 19:00  |  MR 29/02/08
      229.   76... robert your reasonimng sucks 19:02  |  ravi 29/02/08
      230.   Bottom line - pulverize Gaza and everything in it. 19:02  |  Pssd off American. 29/02/08
      231.   Vilnai, Olmert, Tosefta - predominantly tsabarim 19:15  |  17 29/02/08
      232.   No. 83 Yerimiah is right 19:16  |  American Christian 29/02/08
      233.   #81, vladimir 19:16  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 29/02/08
      234.   Holocaust/Shoah 19:18  |  Deborah 29/02/08
      235.   In agreement with Johnboy, if not his wording (#56) 19:18  |  Morris Valentine 29/02/08
      236.   mike cato #66 .what you smoking? 19:18  |  Tyrone 29/02/08
      237.   Robert/Montreal #77 19:24  |  Tyrone 29/02/08
      238.   Posting as a game of chance 19:34  |  Ham Barak 29/02/08
      239.   Iran is Responsible For Escalation in the South 19:34  |  MIKE 29/02/08
      240.   rm - He wasn`t dead the first incursion 19:35  |  Mark Lincoln 29/02/08
      241.   time to invade 1/3 gaza 19:36  |  alan 29/02/08
      242.   Hi Jeff !! Is Hamas hoping to bring Hizbollah into the picture. 19:39  |  BILL GORDON 29/02/08
      243.   Escalation by Hamas 19:42  |  Brod 29/02/08
      244.   The screaming MKs need a brain 19:45  |  Tosefta 29/02/08
      245.   TAKE HEED 19:53  |  THE TEACHER/INSTRUCT 29/02/08
      246.   Purim Lesson 20:06  |  Scharker Yid 29/02/08
      247.   I volunteer to be a settler 20:06  |  Shimon List 29/02/08
      248.   #99, TEACHER/INSTRUCT 20:11  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 29/02/08
      249.   Barak and Hamas 20:14  |  David Gershon 29/02/08
      250.   # 111 THE TEACHER/INSRUCT...TAKE HEED 20:17  |  JOSH 29/02/08
      251.   Smash HAMAS completely. 20:18  |  Vittorio 29/02/08
      252.   Consequences of a new Gaza takeover by Israel 20:22  |  Tosefta 29/02/08
      253.   # 97 Pssd off American..Bottom line pulverize Gaza and everything 20:31  |  JOSH 29/02/08
      254.   130. alan: time to invade 1/3 gaza 20:34  |  KUTW 29/02/08
      255.   Lay off the Iran nonsense 20:37  |  Geri 29/02/08
      256.   atilla karagözoğlu shabbat shalom 20:39  |  Robert/Montreal 29/02/08
      257.   # 127 Pssd Of American**WITH YOU ALL THE WAY.Read on 20:44  |  JOSH 29/02/08
      258.   tick tock tick tock 20:44  |  peter 29/02/08
      259.   #94, "Israel pushes the world" 20:46  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 29/02/08
      260.   No choice but to go to Gaza and fight the zionists 20:47  |  Yaakov Sullivan 29/02/08
      261.   Vilnai is an idiot and doesnt speak for jews or israelis 20:51  |  jj 29/02/08
      262.   #21 Beware the imbefools 20:51  |  Abdullah Ibram 29/02/08
      263.   JOSH 20:51  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 29/02/08
      264.   Bushmocracy 20:54  |  tadchase 29/02/08
      265.   Do not tuch Hamas... 20:57  |  17 29/02/08
      266.   The "Holocaust" threat now makes lead story in the UK 20:58  |  Clickfool 29/02/08
      267.   Barak: Hamas will pay..... 20:59  |  Juliet 29/02/08
      268.   Israeli Minister threatens a "Shoah" 21:07  |  asadcase 29/02/08
      269.   So 90% Of Talkbackers agree..Invade Gaza: 21:10  |  Stephen. 29/02/08
      270.   Yossi Beilin says Israeli leaders "irresponsible" 21:10  |  Dorothy 29/02/08
      271.   #183 - You wanted Gaza, you got it. 21:10  |  Steve 29/02/08
      272.   Bush has set you up nicely 21:10  |  anangryjew 29/02/08
      273.   #64, DANNY 21:11  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 29/02/08
      274.   178 tosefta- "...this is the price we pay for stupid leadership." 21:11  |  bat yam 29/02/08
      275.   What Hamas is trying to gain from kasams 21:12  |  Abu Halil Mustafa 29/02/08
      276.   No occupation. Total destruction only. 21:13  |  fed-up 29/02/08
      277.   Margie v Tzahi 21:15  |  GABE 1 29/02/08
      278.   #223 slight correction in your history 21:16  |  Steve 29/02/08
      279.   To Mr. Barak and every zionist around the globe 21:16  |  Mike 29/02/08
      280.   # 103 Atilla...on religions 21:17  |  Lynn 29/02/08
      281.   For the Umpteenth time, Israel was not , is not 21:18  |  Labhras 29/02/08
      282.   Moronic "Holocaust" posts: "Ha-Shoah" is The Holocaust (caps)... 21:21  |  Dr. L. Brnd 29/02/08
      283.   Crystal clear that the international community is facing a sick 21:22  |  lakshmi 29/02/08
      284.   What a shameful warlord Barak is blaming the victims 21:22  |  Dutch 29/02/08
      285.   Irreversible Self Destruct Course 21:23  |  Realist 29/02/08
      286.   escalation 21:24  |  english jew 29/02/08
      287.   #107 Eli 21:25  |  Chris Linthwaite 29/02/08
      288.   Morris Valentine 21:25  |  Good One 29/02/08
      289.   `Escalation` 21:26  |  Colin Wright 29/02/08
      290.   Palestine and Israel or when "TERRORISM" meets "STATE-TERRORISM" 21:28  |  Swiss (Dino) 29/02/08
      291.   226. "No choice but to go to Gaza and fight the zionists" 21:32  |  whizbang 29/02/08
      292.   Linthwaite and Maureen More Interested in Words Used than... 21:37  |  Tom 29/02/08
      293.   #99, Ferragamo 21:39  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 29/02/08
      294.   # 175 Atilla... Have a lovely week end 21:39  |  Lynn 29/02/08
      295.   For the umpteenth time, Labras , Israel is interested in peace 21:43  |  JJ 29/02/08
      296.   CJ KOHN 21:44  |  JOJO (USA) 29/02/08
      297.   America`s Position 21:47  |  Jim 29/02/08
      298.   kim 21:48  |  alan 29/02/08
      299.   Barak: Hamas will pay for its escalation in the South 21:50  |  martin list, m.d. 29/02/08
      300.   I doubt that IDF will strike strong as it was said. 21:51  |  Vital 29/02/08
      301.   CJ KOHN #10 21:52  |  JOJO (USA) 29/02/08
      302.   #254 Lahbras - nothing less than unconditional surrender 21:54  |  Yonatan 29/02/08
      303.   To shoah or not to shoah.... 21:55  |  Dave from Chicago 29/02/08
      304.   To 252 , Mike. 22:01  |  Vital 29/02/08
      305.   #254..Labhras 22:01  |  Nemesis 29/02/08
      306.   Occupy Gaza Again? 22:01  |  Chas 29/02/08
      307.   GOODBYE HAMAS 22:02  |  TAZ 29/02/08
      308.   Israeli leaders must be the bIggest idiots in the world. 22:04  |  Mordecai Ben Natan 29/02/08
      309.   O M G 22:06  |  Nation-Full of Hate 29/02/08
      310.   Fir the Umpteenth time...they`re after ME! 22:07  |  Labhras 29/02/08
      311.   #159 Yaakov Sullivan 22:07  |  JOJO (USA) 29/02/08
      312.   The "immorality" of looking bad (Dorothy #243) 22:10  |  Tosefta 29/02/08
      313.   Tzfonit My Favourite Arabist 22:13  |  GABE1 29/02/08
      314.   #254 - Labhras - Whose Not Interested In Peace? 22:13  |  Natallie Durson 29/02/08
      315.   #158. Hey Terrornator. Remember the Bolsheviks? 22:16  |  Maureen Ann 29/02/08
      316.   # 255 lakshmi ...it is crystal clear you are grabbing 22:24  |  Lynn 29/02/08
      317.   when? 22:26  |  frenz 29/02/08
      318.   Most Gazans Miss Israeli Occupation 22:36  |  Nate 29/02/08
      319.   # 224 Vitorio ..Smash HAMAS completely.And Utterly! Well Put 22:36  |  JOSH 29/02/08
      320.   Hamas will pay nothing 22:37  |  David 29/02/08
      321.   Labhras # 254 Not Quite 22:41  |  Jeff Northridge 29/02/08
      322.   Ibrahim # 197 response from Glenn 22:50  |  Glenn 29/02/08
      323.   For Morris Vallentine #208 22:56  |  Esther 29/02/08
      324.   #252 To Mike and Every Other Idiot Like Him 22:59  |  Tom 29/02/08
      325.   # 252 Mike Twaddles his Dripple 23:12  |  Sandman 29/02/08
      326.   Shoah criers II 23:15  |  Dave from Chicago 29/02/08
      327.   Those crying for blood, usually the last to offer theirs!! 23:27  |  Toronto`s Finest 29/02/08
      328.   To 252. Mike. Your Wishful thinking 23:29  |  Altalena 29/02/08
      329.   NO NO NO. NO VOTING for me #58 Petra 23:36  |  Hakeem 29/02/08
      330.   Re Cipora #6 etc...etc...etc... 23:38  |  Esther 29/02/08
      331.   Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri said of Vilnai`s comments: "We are 23:44  |  Karl 29/02/08
      332.   Tfonit Deal of the Century 23:57  |  GABE1 29/02/08
      333.   Hamas`s real name 00:04  |  Paul 01/03/08
      334.   They are doing that! 00:06  |  Paul 01/03/08
      335.   LABHRAS arn`t you getting to excited about DEMOGRAPHICS 00:07  |  Gil 01/03/08
      336.   To Stephen. Hello Compañero. 00:08  |  Cesar 01/03/08
      337.   Range 00:09  |  Paul 01/03/08
      338.   #6 Response to Cipora Julianna Kohn 00:09  |  Shepherd 01/03/08
      339.   For the UMPTEENTH TIME, They Are After ME! 00:10  |  Labhras 01/03/08
      340.   #254 - Lahbras, if they wanted Gaza, wouldn`t they have... 00:12  |  Tom 01/03/08
      341.   # 220 Shimon List..I too volunteer to be a settler.. 00:23  |  Fed-Up 01/03/08
      342.   bat yam....don`t feel too badly 00:27  |  Lynn 01/03/08
      343.   # 219 Scharker Yid..Purim Lesson.. 00:28  |  Fed-up 01/03/08
      344.   Glen, I couldn`t agree more. 00:30  |  Ibrahim 01/03/08
      345.   Labhras 00:35  |  Ibrahim 01/03/08
      346.   The Israeli politicians should pay for the mistaken they made 00:41  |  e.m.Jordan is Palest 01/03/08
      347.   Hysteria about the word "shoa" 00:46  |  GM 01/03/08
      348.   Vilnai MUST resign for insulting the six million 00:52