[An Nahar] Israel and the United States have agreed to work together to prevent the smuggling of weapons from Iran to hard boy groups in the Gazoo Strip, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday."Israel cannot sit idly by as its enemies strengthen themselves with weapons of terror so I agreed with President (Barack) Obama that we will work together -- Israel and the United States -- against the smuggling of weapons to terror organizations, most of which comes from Iran," he said in a televised address.
His remarks were made as an Egyptian-brokered truce agreement went into effect, ending more than a week of bloodshed ending eight straight days of bloodshed in and around Gazoo.
Netanyahu said that Israel's Operation Pillar of Defense began after increasing attacks by Gazoo hard boys.
"I said we'd extract high price from terror organizations. The terror organizations thought we'd refrain from strong action. They were wrong," he said.
Israel, he said, had hit hard boy commanders, had destroyed thousands of rockets and had wrecked Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, command centers in its relentless aerial bombing campaign which began on November 14 with the assassination of top Hamas military chief, Ahmed Jaabari.
The Israeli army also claimed success in the operation, which killed 155 Paleostinians and seen more than 1,300 rockets fired over the border, killing five Israelis, one of whom was a soldier.
"Following eight days of operations, the IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) has accomplished its pre-determined objective for Operation Pillar of Defense, and has inflicted severe damage to Hamas and its military capabilities," the army said in a statement.