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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Israel would not negotiate captured soldier's release with militant groups. (AP)
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| By Associated Press June 28, 2006 |
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Wednesday after the launch of a military incursion into Gaza that Israel wouldn't balk at "extreme action" to bring home a soldier captured by Palestinian militants.
"We won't hestitate to carry out extreme action to bring Gilad back to his family," Olmert said, referring to Cpl. Gilad Shalit. "All the military activity that started overnight will continue in the coming days."
"We do not intend to reoccupy Gaza. We do not intend to stay there. We have one objective, and that is to bring Gilad home," he said.
Shalit, 19, was taken captive on Sunday in a Palestinian attack on a military post in southern Israel.
Olmert, speaking at an awards ceremony at the prime minister's residence, reiterated that Israel would not negotiate Shalit's release with militant groups -- repeating this point twice for emphasis.
He said Israel holds the Palestinians' Hamas government, and the Hamas leadership in Syria, responsible for the current situation.
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