UPDATE:Israel To 'Take Over' Rocket-Launching Areas In Gaza-PM
JERUSALEM (AFP)--Israel aims to "take over" areas in Gaza from where militants have fired rockets into the Jewish state, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office said on Saturday after ground troops entered the enclave.
Israel has sent "a large number" of ground troops into Gaza, the army said on Saturday after it said soldiers have entered the Hamas-ruled territory.
"The Israel Defence Forces (army) is planning to take over rocket-launching areas from where rockets have been fired over the past weeks and months," it said in a statement.
The goal of the operation include "dealing a hard blow to the Hamas terror infrastructure and changing the security reality in the south over a long period of time," it said.
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