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Source: http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.801309
President Rivlin: Return of Israeli Soldiers' Bodies Is Precondition for Rebuilding Gaza
(Ha'aretz) Yotam Berger and Jonathan Lis - At a ceremony Thursday marking the third anniversary of the 2014 Gaza war, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin declared: "The rebuilding of Gaza requires the return of our sons and the cessation of all hostilities with Israel. As long as Hamas, a terrorist organization that seeks Israel's destruction, that does not respect human life, that does not respect human rights, a brutal and murderous organization, runs Gaza - Gaza will not be rehabilitated." "In [Operation] Protective Edge we were fighting to protect our home, our kindergartens and schools, our roads, our orchards and fields, on the home front and at the battlefront. It was a war over our everyday life. A moral, just campaign by a sovereign state seeking to defend its citizens."