http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/02/01/israel.rockets/JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday promised a "sharp Israeli response" if rocket attacks from Gaza continue. Palestinian militants fired four rockets into southern Israel on Sunday, police said.
Israel was holding to its position that "if firing continues against residents of the south, there would be a sharp Israeli response that would be disproportionate," Olmert vowed at the beginning of the weekly Cabinet meeting. "We will not go back to the rules of the game that the terrorist organizations tried to dictate in the past. ... We will act according to new rules that will ensure that we are not dragged into an unending shooting war on the southern border."
One of the mortars landed near a kindergarten in the western Negev, but there were no injuries in that attack or the others, police said.
The attacks were another breach in a tentative cease-fire which Israel and Hamas militants each declared unilaterally after a three-week Israeli military operation in Gaza which has left the territory still tense.
Israel launched the attack on Hamas in Gaza on December 27 with the stated aim of ending rocket attacks on southern Israel.
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I guess they didn't meet their primary military objective last time.
Do you think the people of Gaza will try to stop the rocket attacks themselves, or would the cheer them on? Will they stand infront of the Israeli tank and yell "shoot me! I'm right here! come on kill me!"
I swear it must be something in the water.
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