Israeli Finance Minister Yisrael Katz has threatened that any missile launched from the Gaza Strip will face assassinations of Hamas leaders, while Israeli Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi is holding meetings to assess the situation after the ceasefire.
Katz told the Hebrew Public Radio (Reshet Bet) in return for any targeting of the south, there will be assassinations of Hamas leaders, and they should not threaten to launch rockets towards Tel Aviv (center), and we will prevent them from launching at Sderot (south) and anywhere else.
He added that we are now obliged to follow a policy that the ruling (rocket fire on) Sderot is the same as (launching them at) Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
He explained that this is what was reached by the Israeli security cabinet, according to the same source.
Katz stressed that allowing the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip will not happen until after Hamas returns the prisoners and the missing Israelis they are holding.
Hamas maintains 4 Israelis;
Two of them were soldiers who were captured during the war on Gaza in the summer of 2014 (without disclosing their fate or health status), while the other two entered Gaza in unclear circumstances during the past years.
Hamas did not comment on what the Israeli minister said.
Meetings to assess the outcome of the war
In the same context, the Chief of the Military Staff of the Israeli army, Aviv Kochavi, will hold two rounds of meetings on Monday and Thursday to assess the security and military situations, after the Israeli military campaign on the Gaza Strip stopped.
The Israeli Radio said that the two meetings will deal with the repercussions of the ceasefire, and what the last 11-day war has accomplished on the Gaza Strip.
According to the Israeli radio, the military leaders made recommendations to the political leadership in Israel to respond strongly to every breach or shooting from Gaza, especially after it became clear to them that the damage to the missile system of the Palestinian factions, specifically the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), was much less. What was expected, according to what was reported by the military and security editor of the Haaretz newspaper.
After 11 days of military operations, a ceasefire came into effect in the Gaza Strip between Israel and the Palestinian factions, as the two sides announced their acceptance of an Egyptian proposal for a ceasefire, which came into effect at dawn yesterday, Friday.
The brutal Israeli aggression resulted in 279 martyrs, including 69 children, 40 women and 17 elderly, while it led to more than 8,900 injuries, of which 90 were classified as very dangerous.