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Israel to weigh Gaza truce stance | |
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is to meet senior ministers later in the day to discuss a month-long Gaza ceasefire after renewed rocket attacks. | |
A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip on Tuesday injured two teenage Israeli boys in the southern town of Sderot. | |
Defence Minister Amir Peretz said Israel must reconsider its "restraint". | |
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad group said it carried out the Sderot attack in retaliation for recent Israeli military raids in the West Bank. | |
Army post | |
Rocket attacks have been increasing in recent days. The Israeli military said seven in all were fired on Tuesday. | |
One rocket struck a street in Sderot, critically injuring one teenager and seriously injuring another, Israeli media said. | |
After the attack, a spokesman for Mr Olmert, David Baker, warned Israel's "restraint will not continue indefinitely while Israelis continue to be attacked". | |
The 26 November truce was called to halt five months of violence that began after militants killed two Israeli soldiers and captured another in an attack on an army post. | |
Analysts say Mr Olmert must weigh calls from Israeli hardliners for a response to the dozens of rockets that have been fired since the truce began with appeals from the US and Europeans to maintain the ceasefire. | |
Israel has killed more than a dozen Palestinians, mainly gunmen in the West Bank, since the truce. |