Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman affirmed their rejection to drift to a war against Gaza Strip.
While Netanyahu said that the air force will be decisive in the coming battle with the Palestinian factions in Gaza Strip, Lieberman focused that Israel wont drift to reoccupy Gaza, announcing that this contradicts with the Israel national reconciliation.
Israeli officials’ statements came as a response to ministers demanding occupying Gaza and ousting the ruling of Hamas there. They also came in response to analysis that appeared in the past days in the media speaking about the imminent deterioration of conditions through a war between Israel and armed groups in the strip.
Netanyahu sources reported him saying that who drags Israel into a military confrontation will regret.
Lieberman stated that the citizens in Israel can be assured since the leadership is acting responsibly and is not being dragged to wars. He added, as he spoke to a group of new military officers, that he now stands infront of the best defense force in the world, and the strongest army in the Middle East.
Lieberman continued that the Israelis are impatient and they want everything on the spot, war now, peace now, decisiveness now. But the serious security policy shouldn’t be responsive to media and people's pressure.
Dozens of residents in Jewish Israeli towns surrounding Gaza held a demonstration on Friday demanding the government to act against the burning kites that have led to starting fire in 30,000 donums of fields so far.
Protesters demanded that Hamas should pay a costly price to make it stop launching these kites.
