GAZA, Jan 18 (KUNA) — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Sunday that Israel’s unilateral ceasefire it announced at dawn today in the Gaza Strip was fragile and was being reassessed on a minute by minute basis.
“The government’s decision allows Israel to respond and renew the fire if our enemy in the Gaza Strip continues its strikes,” he said after Gaza militants fired a handful of rockets into Israel.
“This morning they again proved that the ceasefire is fragile and it has to be reassessed on a minute by minute basis,” Olmert said at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem.
“We hope that the fire ends. If it continues, the IDF (Israeli Defence Forces) will respond. It is prepared and deployed to do so.” On the other hand, the number of Palestinian martyrs as a result of the Israeli offensive now stands at 1,300 and more than 5,450 wounded.