Israel News Update

In what sounded like a last ditch appeal, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert turned directly to Gaza Strip residents Thursday with a request to "stop it."

"I say to you in a last minute call, stop it," Olmert said in an interview Thursday on the Arab satellite station al-Arabiya. "Stop it, you the citizens of Gaza, you can stop it. I know how much you want to get up in the morning to quiet, to take your children to kindergarten or school, the way we do, the way they want to in

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 The missile that landed south of Ashkelon Thursday evening was a Grad Katyusha rocket, according to Haaretz. Five other rockets were launched during the course of the day by terrorists in Hamas-controlled Gaza.

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Livni on rocket attacks: Enough is enough Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said Thursday, "Enough is enough. The situation (in the Gaza Strip) is going to change." Livni is in Cairo for meetings with President ... Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said Thursday, "Enough is enough. The situation (in the Gaza Strip) is going to change." Livni is in Cairo for meetings with President Hosni Mubarak and other Egyptian officials, on the escalation of violence emanating from the Gaza Strip. Livni said there is one address and it is Hamas. Speaking at a joint press conference with her Egyptian counterpart, Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit, Livni said Hamas needs to understand our aspiration for peace does not mean Israel will take this situation indefinitely. ---------------------------------------- Israeli President Shimon Peres said that for there to be peace, Hamas must stop shooting. ------------------------------------------ Audio of the most recent Voice of Israel newscast in English: http://www.intkolisrael.com/  ( Israel is 8 hrs later in time than CST)