After Airstrikes, Israel Threatens To Occupy Gaza

Israel_Defense_Forces - Photo by the Israeli Defence Forces Spokesperson's Unit

Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman is threatening a menacing ultimatum—continued airstrikes or full occupation—an Israeli military-owned radio station quoted him as saying on Sunday.

The comments came hours after the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) launched an airstrike on the Gaza strip in retaliation for what they said were projectiles fired from the Palestinian territory into the Negev desert.

“Either with each round we attack terror infrastructure and they shoot, or we go to full occupation,” Lieberman said on the IDF-operated Army Radio, or Galei Tzaha.

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