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GAZA, Dec 14 (KUNA) -- Palestinian activists launched here earlier on
Sunday a missile towards southern Israel from Gaza.
Radio Israel quoted a spokesman of the army as saying that the missile
exploded in an open area in Al-Naqab area adjacent to the Strip.
Yediot Ahronot Israeli newspaper stressed here that the head of the Israeli
political team in the Israeli Ministry of Defense Amos Gilad, who is currently
visiting Cairo, warned Hamas movement of a tough military operation, as a
response to the continuous Palestinian launching of missiles towards Israel
from Gaza.
It added that Gilad will inform the Egyptian officials that Israel will not
change its truce with Hamas, which was made under an Egyptian patronage.
Sources in the Israel army have accused Hamas of manipulating the rules of
the game in the Strip, in order to prevent the army of cruising there, saying
that the Israeli Minister of Defense Ehud Olmert informed the journalists last
night that his country is committed to extend the truce with Gaza, according
to the old rules, the excludes West Bank.
Olmert said that in case Hamas is planning to change the conditions of the
truce, which will expire on the 19th of the current month, Israel will be not
be committed in it. (end)
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