Israeli PM says airforce to respond with force if Gaza truce violated
时间：2012-11-27 02:13:49
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JERUSALEM, Nov. 25 (Xinhua) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that the Israeli airforce will respond with force if an Egypt-brokered ceasefire deal with Gaza is violated.
"We chose when it will begin and controlled how it ended. If the quiet continues, we'll respond with quiet. If it is violated, we'll respond with force," he said when addressing the pilots who participated in airstrikes last week in the Gaza Strip.
"You'll be able to continue preparing for the next campaign (if the
truce1 is maintained). If it is violated, you'll return to strike ..." he said during a visit to Palmachim, an airbase north of Tel Aviv, which houses helicopter gunship and unmanned drone squadrons that saw intensive action last week, in the company of
Defense2 Minister Ehud Barak, army chief Benny Gantz and Air Force commander Amir Eshel.
The comments came four days after the ceasefire deal ended a week-long
confrontation3 between Israel and the Islamist Hamas movement that controls the Gaza Strip, in which the former struck hundreds of
militant4 targets throughout Gaza and the latter fired
upwards5 of a thousand rockets into Israel, some of which were aimed at Tel Aviv and Jerusalem for the first time.
"Hamas' weapons stockpiles sustained hard hits in precise strikes," and "Most of the missiles aimed at central Israel were
depleted6, in addition to thousands of missiles aimed at the South, " he said, according to a statement sent to Xinhua.
Responding to criticism voiced by residents of southern Israeli cities that the military operation was
prematurely7 cut short, Netanyahu said "there was no reason" to expand it once its goals were achieved.
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