JERUSALEM (The Blaze/AP) — Militants in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip bombarded southern Israel with rockets and mortars Sunday, striking an empty school and a score of other targets, as diplomats scrambled to keep a new convulsion of Israeli-Palestinian violence from escalating.
Senior Israeli officials met late into the night to discuss how to proceed with retaliatory operations against Gaza militants, who they say triggered the latest round of hostilities Thursday with a roadside ambush along the Israeli-Egypt border that killed eight Israelis.
Military spokesman Brig. Gen. Yoav Mordechai said Israel’s current response to the surge in violence – airstrikes that have killed 15 Palestinians, most of them militants – was not its final word.
Israel “will not hesitate” to widen its military operation if necessary, he told Israel Radio. “We will see how things develop on the ground,” he said without elaborating.
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Those of you who read my blog, know that I believe Israel has every right to defend herself from these attacks. yet, the world and some governments like the British Government have chosen to take the other side and support Hamas and the Islamic terrorists, and are silent when their Muslim friends attack Israel. The truth has no agenda, so what does the British government gain by their double standard?
Your answer shows real intiellgence.