Israel hinted that it could respond in kind to future Palestinian shelling from the Gaza Strip. “We also have mortars,” the army’s chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz, told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Wednesday when asked about cross-border mortar fire from Gaza.
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