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November 18th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda “We don’t have any purpose to conquer Gaza.”
Meanwhile Avigdor Lieberman, the Israeli foreign minister, said Israel would
not negotiate a truce with Hamas as long as rocket fire continues from the
Palestinian enclave.
“The first and absolute condition for a truce is stopping all fire from
Gaza,” he said before meeting French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius,
adding that all militant factions in Gaza would have to commit to cease
rocket fire.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) speaks with IDF Chief of Staff
Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz (C) and Defence Minister Ehud Barak (AFP/Getty Images)
Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, on Sunday threatened to expand
the assault on Hamas-run Gaza as the Jewish state pressed ahead with a fifth
day of strikes, killing six people including four children as truce efforts
intensified.
“Basically our purpose is peace; their purpose is to destroy Israel. It’s
not an easy situation,” Mr Peres said.
“We are very careful not to hit any civilian life and they are
concentrated on hitting our civilian life.
“Hamas is shooting at our settlements, at our houses, at our
kindergartens, at our schools. What would any other country do but to try to
stop it and do so without hitting civilian life?
“They shoot at our children. We are trying to answer and shoot against
the ones who fire against us.”
The 89-year-old said Israel was making a “supreme effort” to avoid
civilian casualties but “unfortunately they use their homes, even their
mosques to hide the arms, to make them headquarters of shooting.
“In spite of it, and until now I believe, almost no civilians were hit.
“We shall keep on with our principles. We are not being carried away by
anger or misconception. The government is behaving as a responsible
government that has to defend their citizens, young and old.”
Israeli soldiers sit atop their tanks on the Israeli side of the border
with the Gaza Strip (AFP/Getty Images)
Laurent Fabius, the French foreign minister, arrived in the region to bolster
Egyptian efforts to broker a ceasefire, with Palestinian officials saying it
was possible a deal would be reached “today or tomorrow.”
Meanwhile William
Hague warned that a ground invasion of Gaza would see Israel lose
international sympathy and support.
There was no letup in the bloodshed, with Sunday’s victims including three
toddlers and a 13-year-old girl in a relentless campaign of air strikes
which has stoked Arab and Islamic anger.
The latest deaths hiked the Palestinian death toll to 52, even as the Israeli
army said there had been no militant rocket fire during the night. Three
Israelis have been killed by rocket fire since Wednesday.
The 10-hour lull ended at 7:00am (0500 GMT) after which 33 rockets hit Israel
and another five were intercepted by the Iron Dome anti-missile system, the
army said.
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