Jerusalem, March 28, 2010 (Pal Telegraph) - A senior Israeli minister warned toady that Israel might re-occupy Gaza Strip again and would "liquidate" the Hamas-run government in Gaza following deadly clashes that killed two Israeli soldiers and one Palestinian on Friday.
"Sooner or later we will liquidate the military regime of the pro-Iranian Hamas which controls the Gaza Strip," Israeli Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz, from the governing rightwing Likud party, told public radio.
"I am not setting a timetable, but we will not tolerate this regime continuing to strengthen itself militarily and providing itself with an arsenal of rockets that threaten our territory," he added.
Israel cannot accept the fact that Hamas is armed with long range-missiles, Steinitz added, while The Israeli Minister of Defense Ehud Barak claimed that Hamas possesses missiles that can reach the centre of Israel.
Hamas movement seized power in Gaza in June 2007 after routing forces loyal to Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas.
Source: agencies
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