Youth News Palestine-Gaza

Israeli threatened on Thursday to launch a "serious military operation" into the Gaza Strip if the homemade projectiles fired by Palestinian resistance brigades cause Israeli casualties in the towns bordering the coastal region.
The Israeli daily newspaper Maariv reported that the chances of a major Israeli incursion into the Gaza Strip have increased now the Annapolis conference is over.
Israeli tanks and thousands of troops are not expected to enter Gaza Strip within the next few days, but if Palestinians launch projectiles that cause Israeli casualties, "the Israeli response will come swiftly in the form of a serious military operation for the first time since the Israeli disengagement from the Gaza Strip," according to the newspaper.
The Israeli army has completed the required planning for the incursion, the newspaper added.
However, the political echelons and the army will endeavor to avoid a major ground operation in Gaza Strip as it is expected to result in a large numbers of casualties without a guarantee of ending the barrage of homemade projectiles.