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March 12th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
The exchange of fire, which followed tough words from Prime Minister Netanyahu
and militants in Gaza on Sunday, suggested efforts by Hamas to broker a
ceasefire through Egypt had yet to bear fruit.
On Sunday, Netanyahu warned that operations would “continue as long as
necessary.”
“I have given orders to strike all those who plan on attacking us,”
he said during a tour of southern Israel, public radio reported.
“The Israeli army has already dealt heavy blows to the terrorist
organisations,” he added.
Islamic Jihad, which has claimed responsibility for most of the rocket fire
into Israel since Friday, quickly issued a statement in response, vowing
that “operations will continue whatever the price.”
“Escalation will be met with escalation, and what is coming is even
greater,” the group said.
Israel’s top military officer said there would be no end in sight while rocket
fire continued.
“The IDF (Israel Defence Forces) has been responding, and will continue
to do so with strength and determination against any firing of rockets at
Israel,” said Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Benny Gantz.
Violence has spiked since Friday when Israeli jets raided the Gaza Strip,
killing Zuhair al-Qaisi, the head of the Popular Resistance Committees
militant group, and prompting barrages of Palestinian rocket fire into the
Jewish state.
The Israeli army said Qaisi was involved in planning a deadly August 2011
attack in which militants sneaked across the border from Egypt’s Sinai and
killed eight in Israel’s southern Negev desert.
And it said he was planning a similar attack “in the coming days.”
On Sunday, the death toll in Gaza due to air strikes had reached 18, including
a 12-year-old child, and Israel said more than 120 rockets had landed in its
territory, wounding four.
Both sides called for action from the UN Security Council, as the
international peacemaking Quartet was to hold its first top-level meeting in
six months on Monday.
Israel criticised international “silence” over rocket fire from
Gaza, while the Palestinians accused the Jewish state of “crimes of
aggression against the Palestinian people.”
The violence prompted concern from the United States and the European Union
but there was no sign that a truce was on the horizon.
Hamas officials said on Sunday that intensive efforts were under way with
Egypt to reach a mediated truce, but that they expected Israel to hold fire
first.
“The Israeli aggression started this three days ago and before any talk
about a truce, the Israeli side should stop,” spokesman Taher al-Nunu
told AFP.
Source: agencies
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