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Israel strikes Palestinian PM’s office

Striking at the heart of Palestinian government, Israeli Air Force fired missiles at the Gaza office of Hamas premier Ismail Hanieh.

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JERUSALEM: Striking at the heart of Palestinian government, Israeli Air Force on Sunday fired missiles at the Gaza office of Hamas premier Ismail Hanieh and set it ablaze, even as Prime Minister Ehud Olmert ordered military to do everything possible against terrorists to secure the release of a captured teenage soldier.

"My government has instructed the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) and security establishment to do everything in order to bring Gilad,” Olmert told a weekly cabinet meeting, hours after the early morning missile strike at Hanieh's Gaza Strip office on the sixth day of operations to press the release of 19-year-old Gilad Shalit.

"And when I say everything, I mean everything, whatever is possible, whatever is necessary," he added.

He said the forces have been ordered to act with all their might to pursue terrorists, their ideologists and those who offer them protection.

In another Israeli strike on Sunday, a Hamas operative was killed in Jabalya refugee camp.

The attack on Hanieh's office, which was empty, came even as Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas said efforts were on to free Gilad, who was taken away by militants on last Sunday in a raid on an army post after killing two servicemen.

"While we regret any harm to the Palestinian population, we are responsible for the peace of the State of Israel and its citizens," Olmert said, adding, "it is out of this responsibility that we will strike at anyone who tries to hurt us, nobody will be exempt."

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