Netanyahu touts importance of demilitarizing Gaza in address to foreign press
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Netanyahu touts importance of demilitarizing Gaza

  •   PM Netanyahu addresses the world amid negotiations in Cairo for a long-term truce; says "90 percent" of civilian deaths could have been avoided had Hamas accepted earlier truce.
  • 8/6/2014
  • Photo: HAIM ZACH/GPO
     
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    (Source: Herb Keinon, jpost)  
     
    Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu addressed the foreign press on Wednesday evening following what appeared to be the end of Israel's operation in the Gaza Strip.
     
    The prime minister spoke of the importance of a demilitarized Gaza and praised US Secretary of State John Kerry's view that disarming Gaza terror groups was an important long-term goal.