Netanyahu: Our policy is to kill or be killed

Guy looks at camera London - Ahmed Abed Israel announced the second truce in the last 24 hours between the "Islamic Jihad" and Tel Aviv, after an Israeli attack killed 10 Palestinans. Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said on Sunday that Tel Aviv policy towards Gaza was based on two principles: "Kill or be killed" and “He who harms you should bear the blood on his head.” An Israeli airstrike on Sunday afternoon killed a leader of the National Resistance Brigade, after killing nine fighters from Islamic Jihad's armed wing on Saturday in the Gaza Strip. Netanyahu blamed Hamas for the violence. “Hamas rules Gaza and it is responsible for its security, even if the perpetrators are Islamic Jihad,” he said in a statement to Israel Radio. He added “Israel would target anyone who attempts to fire more rockets.” "It is not worthwhile for anybody to test our determination to invoke the government's defence principles. We will prevent every attempt to shoot at Israel, and we will hurt everyone who nevertheless succeeds at doing so,” he continued. Netanyahu told his ministers in a special cabinet session of the two principles Israel’s defence policy was based on. "I suggest that Hamas, Jihad and the other organisations not test our determination to actualise the two principles I have described here," said Netanyahu. "We will stop every attempt to fire against Israel…we are not tempestuous and we do not want things to deteriorate, but we will defend Israel's citizens determinedly, aggressively and effectively." "We have no desire to see deterioration in the situation but will defend ourselves according to these principles," he said at the opening of a new medical school in northern Israel. Meanwhile, Channel Ten of Israel TV announced that second truce went into effect at 10pm that evening. Political analysts said that means both 'Islamic Jihad' and Tel Aviv agreed to the Egyptian- mediated truce to end the violence. Israel has escalated its military aggression against the Gaza Strip and intensified its air raids at dawn Sunday immediately after a truce brokered by Egypt was declared between the two sides. On the ground, Israel air raids killed Ahmad Gargun, head of the missile-firing group in The National Resistance Brigades (NRB), the armed wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP). In an important development The Israel Defense Forces Home Front Command on Sunday night announced that there were no more restrictions on public gatherings, meetings, schools, non-essential jobs or shopping centers. Though the lifting of the ban means that schools can open as usual on Monday, several southern Israeli communities such as Ashdod, Ashkelon and Gan Yavne announced that schools would remain closed on Monday. Despite the agreed ceasefire, Netanyahu said “there is no cease fire in the South,” adding: “I promise that the other side will pay even heavier prices than it has so far, until it stops firing.” Member of the DFLP’s politburo Salih Zidan, said that Zionist occupation broke the truce. “This crime aimed to frustrate the Palestinian resistance, but we will continue our resistance against the Zionist enemy,” he said. “They want to deflate the spirit of our people, which was strengthened after liberation of Palestinian prisoners and after Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas asked the United Nations to recognise a state for his people.” First deputy president of the Legislative Council Ahmed Bahr warned Netanyahu’s government of the consequences of continuing the escalation and aggression on Gaza. Bahr added that "threats of Netanyahu and his group reflects the depth of the crisis experienced by the occupying government, which is like a scream in a valley, or the blowing of the ashes, and will not discourage our people to continue the struggle to restore the freedom, dignity, and rights of the Palestinian people.” He asserted that “the resistance will teach Netanyahu and his government and his army a new lesson in our existential struggle with the extended occupation.” An expert in Israeli security affairs warned of the Zionist entity's attempt to not implement the second part of the prisoner exchange deal by straining the political, military and security relations between Israel and the Gaza Strip. He pointed out that the first steps of the Zionist entity was the assassination operations carried out yesterday against number of the leaders of 'Al Quds Brigades', the military wing of 'Islamic Jihad'. The expert named a number of important and serious reasons and indicators why Israel resort to the bombing and assassination policy, saying: "The Zionist occupation increased recently the talk about Hamas' possession of smuggled weapons through border tunnels, in addition to claims about having advanced anti-aircraft Russian rockets that Israel takes as a justification for the bombing operation in the Gaza Strip.” The analyst believed that “the bombing operations carried out by Israel demonstrate that it is falling in a deep internal political crisis, and that appeared in the conflict between the leaders of Israel and the government, along with the opposition parties, especially after the Shalit deal, that made the occupation looks fragile. So it resorts to violence to reduce internal tension and conflict. This also proves that Israel faces an internal social crisis and public protests, and it tries, through attacks on Gaza, to escape from the reality it experienced by convincing the Israeli public that there is a security situation aggravated in Gaza. That appeared clearly in the public protest that was canceled yesterday in Beersheba on the pretext of security conditions.” Adham Abu Salmiyya, spokesperson the of Higher Committee of the Medical and Emergency Services in Gaza, stated that the Israeli Air Force carried out at least ten strikes in two hours at dawn on Sunday while dozens of residents, especially children, suffered anxiety attacks due to the shelling. Abu Salmiyya said in a media statement: “What Israel is doing violates Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, signed on August 12, 1949 which provides for the protection of civilian life.”