Israel plans to curb Gaza rockets

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The Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, has told the country's military to draw up plans to curb rocket attacks from within the Gaza Strip.

The decision was announced after a meeting of Israel's security cabinet.

It stopped short of calls from some ministers to expand military operations in Gaza, or to cut Israel's supplies of water and electricity to the territory.

Palestinian militants frequently fire rockets into Israel. One landed near a school in the town of Sderot on Monday.

No-one was hurt in the attack, but it caused panic among residents of the town, which is near Gaza's eastern border.

Israel's government blamed the rocket attacks on the Islamist group Hamas, which seized control of Gaza in June.

In a statement, it said intensive military operations would continue "against those involved in terror and rocket launching".

Ministers also agreed that Israel's security establishment would present a plan to "hamper the supply of services provided by Israel to the Gaza Strip in reaction to ongoing vile and indiscriminate attacks".

Palestinian groups say they fire rockets at Israel in response to Israeli military action in Gaza and the West Bank.