The Israeli government has ordered the IDF to resume operations against Hamas and the other terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip. Israel had acceded to a UN request that a humanitarian cease-fire that came into effect on Saturday should be extended to midnight tonight, but Hamas and Islamic Jihad continued firing rockets at Israeli territory this morning, and said they would not observe a truce until Israeli forces left the Gaza Strip. RELATED ARTICLES Israel extends cease-fire; rockets continue falling "Starve Hamas of money" The Israeli government said in a statement this morning, "Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon have ordered the IDF to resume operations against the Hamas terrorists who violated the humanitarian truce which the UN requested for the residents of Gaza. Yet again Hamas is cynically exploiting the residents of Gaza in order to use them as human shields. Hamas first rejected the Egyptian ceasefire initiative and afterwards violated last week's UN humanitarian truce. It later violated the Red Cross humanitarian truce and has rebuffed the UN request for a humanitarian truce in order to allow the residents of Gaza to prepare for Eid al-Fitr. "The IDF targets terrorist centers but if residents are inadvertently hit, it is Hamas which is responsible given that it has again violated the humanitarian truce that Israel acceded to." Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on July 27, 2014 © Copyright of Globes Publisher Itonut (1983) Ltd. 2013
