Israel warns it can hit Gaza tunnels again

[Adsos Letter]

Source: AFP/Yahoo

JERUSALEM, (AFP) - - Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni warned on Thursday that Israel reserved the right to attack smuggling tunnels on the border of Egypt and Hamas-run Gaza Strip.

"For the tunnels, nothing will be as it was before," Livni told public radio. "Things must be clear -- Israel reserves the right to react militarily against the tunnels once and for all.

"If we have to act, we will do so, we will exercise our right to legitimate defence, we will not leave our fate ... to the Egyptians, nor to the Europeans nor to the Americans," she said.

During its massive 22-day offensive on Hamas in Gaza, Israel bombed hundreds of tunnels on the Gaza-Egypt border, destroying 150 of them, according to Defence Minister Ehud Barak who on Wednesday issued a warning similar to Livni's.

"If we are forced to, there will be more attacks," Barak said on public televisio

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[zonmoy]

1. So what is their real agenda with closing off all sources of food and medicine

and then threatening to bomb the tunnels that were most likely built to smuggle in the food to stop their plan to ethnically cleanse the palestinians there by starving them to death.