“Israel will press its air and ground offensive in the Gaza Strip, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday, preparing his country for a longer and bloodier campaign and dashing hopes that the three-week-old conflict would end soon. Rebuffing appeals from President Obama, the United Nations and others for an immediate cease-fire, Netanyahu said in a televised address, ‘We will not finish the mission, we will not finish the operation, without neutralizing the tunnels’ through which Hamas fighters have sought to infiltrate Israel. The tunnels, he said, ‘have the sole purpose of destroying our citizens, killing our children.’”
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