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Olmert rejects truce until Shalit freed |
2006-07-09 |
![]() Hamas also urged Israel to open negotiations over the fate of Shalit. It did not, however, say what Hamas would do in return. One senior official in the Prime Minister's Office said that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has made clear since the outset of the crisis two weeks ago that the first thing that needed to be done was for the Palestinians to release Shalit. After that, he said, "we will respond to quiet with quiet of our own." The official said that Israel had no intention of remaining in positions that the IDF had moved into inside the Gaza Strip, and that Israel did not leave Gaza 10 months ago with the intention of returning. He said that if Kassam rocket fire continues after the IDF once again leaves Gaza, the IDF would return. "We can go in and come out very quickly," he said. |
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