From 'The World Today' on the BBC World Service
Aired around 00:00 a.m. GMT 10/04/04
BBC: Israel has been pressing home its attacks in northern Gaza. Several more Palestinians were killed on Sunday. The Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, speaking on Israel radio on the 5th day of the operation, said it was now time to expand, to push back Palestinian rocket launchers inside Gaza.
Right into the Mediterranean, preferably.
[Sharon is heard speaking in Hebrew until the translation kicks in]:
"I think this operation is preceding well. Our forces are operating in a professional and efficient manner. This is not a brief thing. Our forces will have to remain there as long as the threat exists. I would like to add that we must operate in the Gaza Strip in such a way as to prevent the shelling of Gaza Strip communities now, as well as during the future evacuation."
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