MK (Kadima) Tzachi Hanegbi, in his capacity as chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs & Relations Committee, announced Operation Cast Lead was stopped to soon. Addressing the Herzliya Conference, Hanegbi explained that the IDF will be taking over large areas of Gaza to bring a halt to the renewed rocket fire. Hanegbi stated that there are no other alternative but retaking control of large areas of Gaza to prevent their use as launching pads for rocket attacks into southern Israel.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)