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Israel tells UN it will respond to Gaza rocket fire
AFP - Tuesday, December 23
JERUSALEM (AFP) - - Israel notified UN chief Ban Ki-moon that it will respond to continuing rocket fire from Gaza following the expiry of a truce with Hamas, a foreign ministry official said Monday.
Israel's ambassador to the United Nations Gabriela Shalev sent the letter to Ban on Sunday as part of a diplomatic campaign to garner international support for any offensive against the territory, the senior official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
"(Israel) will not hesitate to react militarily if necessary" to rockets fired by militants from the Gaza Strip, Shalev said in her letter, according to public radio.
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, leader of the governing Kadima party, "is due to soon meet with foreign ambassadors to Israel and to speak with her counterparts abroad," the official said.
Violence around the impoverished Gaza Strip has steadily escalated since Friday, when Hamas said it would not renew a six-month truce with Israel.
Since then, the army has carried out several air strikes, killing one militant, and Palestinians have launched several dozen rockets into the Jewish state, wounding a handful of people.
On Sunday, Israeli officials threatened to launch a major offensive against the territory, which has been ruled by the Islamist Hamas movement since June 2007.
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An Israeli army tank rolls near the southern Israeli border with the Gaza Strip near Kibbutz Kissufim. Israel notified UN chief Ban Ki-moon that it will respond to continuing rocket fire from Gaza following the expiry of a truce with Hamas, a foreign ministry official said Monday.
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