Netanyahu: Israel ready to act with full force to stop missiles
The prime minister spoke before meeting with U.S. defense secretary; Netanyahu also promised a 'tough reaction' to Wednesday's bombing in Jerusalem.
By Haaretz Service and DPAIsrael is ready to act with full force to stop missile attacks launched from the Gaza Strip, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday.
"No country could accept such attacks," Netanyahu told reporters ahead of his meeting with United States Defense Secretary Robert Gates in Caesarea.
The prime minister's comments come a day after a Grad rocket was launched towards Ashdod from Gaza in addition to three Qassam rockets which landed in the Negev. Thursday was another day of exchanges of fire in the area of the Gaza Strip, with five mortar shells landing on the Israeli side of the border.
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U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a press conference in Caesarea on March 25, 2011. |
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The rockets resulted in the Israel Air Force launched two strikes on the Strip Thursday. It attacked a group launching Grad missiles in the morning, with the militants fleeing but the launcher successfully destroyed. In the evening, the IAF attacked an Islamic Jihad target described as a "weapons manufacturing site."
In addition to a drastic increase in rocket fire, a bomb detonated in Jerusalem on Wednesday that killed one and injured over 30.
Before meeting with Gates, Netanyahau promised a "tough reaction" to the bombing attack, adding that Israel would act "responsibly and wisely."
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go ahead netanyahu!!! this is your job.
One Man, One Vote, Equality for all inhabitants. Equal Pay for Equal Work, Equal Water Rights. No Apartheid, No Segregation...A Very True Secular Democracy. Let us call it: “State of Holy Land”.
I thought he will say: israel is ready to talk to Hamas and work for peace with full force!
Tough, responsible, wise. Well, words words words. Not good enough, Mr. Netanyahu. The era of half-measures, a dynamic controlled by Hamas, must end. Now.
against those who do not have the means to adequately defend themselves. I say try using full force against Iran.
Though reaction.....? Against whom ? Do you have a clue for the Itamar attack or the Bombing ? No ? Thought so.....
Nobody ever comes to the idea to eventually cut the crap and come back to Negotiations ? I mean serious Negotiations....? And i am NOT talking of the Palestinians here.......Only Bombs, more Bombs, and even more Bombs.......Is that really all that Israel understands? How sad.....