David Bedein

"We can't defeat a terrorist organization without controlling the territory," Israel Army Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi said on Wednesday.

Four rockets fell in uninhabited areas within the Shaar Hanegev Regional Council with no casualties or damage, and a fifth rocket fell inside Palestinian territory.& Noam Bedein

Residents of the western Negev woke up yesterday to another morning of Kassam rockets; armed Palestinians launched no less then 20 Kassam rockets at the area, with one of them landing on a street in Sderot.

Throughout the day yesterday, IDF ground troops, with the assistance of the Israeli Air Force and in coordination with the Israeli intelligence, carried out more operations against terrorists in the Gaza Strip.

The headlines in the Israeli media yesterday morning reported the Israel Military Intelligence Branch's latest assessment on rocket fire out of the Gaza Strip.

The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the military wing of Fatah, defined by the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. State Department as a terrorist organization

Mr. Abbas noted that he does not see anything that will prevent dialogue with Hamas, which he described as "part of the Palestinian people."

The political weakness of U.S. President George W. Bush will prevent the possibility of American military measures against the Iranian nuclear facility