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Mofaz: Israel Will Not "Run Away" from Gaza
(Ha'aretz) Yifat Zohar - Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said Thursday: "The IDF's operations in Gaza are essential and unavoidable. It is also the right thing to do....The struggle includes battling hundreds of terror cells, alleyways, explosive charges, bomb-making laboratories, tunnels and hideouts - and all inside a densely populated area....Our operations both in Zeitun and on the Philadelphia route are essential. If we do not operate against the tunnels we will find ourselves being attacked in the heart of Israel. No one plans on running away from the Gaza Strip." (Maariv International) Mofaz said that Palestinians should not be given "credit" for having managed to blow up two explosives-laden armored personnel carriers in two days, killing 11 soldiers, which he called a "coincidence."