Israeli cabinet call for waging large-scale military attack on Gaza

Israeli ministers called on Sunday for launching large-scale attacks on the Gaza Strip and for escalating assassinations, at the pretext of stopping the firing of resistance rockets, which pounded the Zionist settlement outposts, as well as the infiltration to the Palestinian lands occupied in 1948.

During a routine cabinet meeting, Israeli minister of internal security Avi Dichter said that the IOF troops must take hold of rocket-launching areas in the north of the Gaza Strip and use them as bases to wage armed attacks on the Palestinians, not ruling out the full evacuation of those areas from their Palestinian residents.

For his part, Israeli interior minister Meir Shitrit urged the government to enter Gaza militarily, instead of depending on retaliations, to eliminate the Palestinian resistance. Israeli tourism minister and others members of Israeli cabinet seconded the proposals

In another development, Israeli warplanes launched on Monday a raid on the northern Gaza Strip, aimed at a group of Palestinian resistance fighters who had fired at least one rocket that fell in the western Negev area, south of the Palestinian lands occupied in 1948, according to Hebrew media sources. Palestine Information Center