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IDF Preparing for Future Gaza Military Action


(Ha'aretz) Yanir Yagna and Gili Cohen - Four rockets were fired Wednesday from Gaza into Israel. The Israel Air Force killed three Palestinian terrorists in Gaza and wounded another nine on Tuesday. Three years after Israel's Gaza military operation, the IDF is preparing for another possible large-scale incursion. "We are preparing and in fact are ready for another campaign, which will be varied and different, to renew our deterrence, if we are called on to restore full quiet to the communities [in the south]," said Brig. Gen. Tal Hermoni, the head of the Gaza division's southern brigade. Under a plan overseen by Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, the next Gaza operation would be shorter than the previous one, but would employ far greater firepower.
2011-12-29 00:00:00
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