[Fox News] "Israel is not going to count its fatalities," Israel's Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter told reporters in Washington. "Those areas in the Gaza Strip that, from there they are launching Kassam rockets, will be under Israeli attacks, and if it's needed, invasion....The depth of our invasion is going to be decided by the distance of the Kassam rockets....We've done it in the West Bank. We've done it several times in the Gaza Strip. We don't have to conquer the whole Gaza Strip." Dichter confirmed that Israeli Defense Forces are mobilizing for a possible expanded ground operation in Gaza, adding that it won't be long before the Israeli government decides whether to fully invade Gaza to stop what he called "daily" rocket attacks emanating from the area.
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