The Israeli general overseeing the Gaza Strip withdrawal said terrorists could fire from Gaza into Israel when the withdrawal is complete. “Even if we seize the Palestinian areas, that is not to say they will not manage to fire a mortar bomb or rocket into a relatively small area containing thousands of people,” Maj. Gen. Dan Harel, the chief of the Israeli military’s Southern Command, told Ha’aretz.
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