Israeli government and defense officials criticized the army’s delay in responding to Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel. The Israeli daily Ma’ariv quoted one senior political source as complaining that it took the military two days to mobilize a response to Sunday’s rocket attacks, adding, “by the time we got moving, all the terrorists had time to escape.”
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