Israel: Hamas Will Pay Heavy Price for Its Crimes
JERUSALEM, Israel -- A number of stray Syrian rockets fell in the Israeli Golan Heights on Monday. It's not the first time.
The incident followed two rockets that were launched at Israel from Lebanon over the weekend.
Israel responded with artillery fire.
Meanwhile, Palestinian groups said there was a breakthrough in Egyptian attempts to broker an Israeli-Hamas ceasefire.
But on Monday, Hamas rockets kept coming.
Israel bombed a Hamas command and control center in the Gaza Strip over the weekend. It's part of the latest round of fighting after Hamas broke a ceasefire for the eleventh time in the month-and-half-old conflict.
An Iron Dome anti-missile battery shot down a rocket headed for Jerusalem over the weekend. Hamas has launched more than 700 rockets and mortars at Israel since breaking the ceasefire last week.
On Friday, 4-year-old Daniel Tragerman died in a mortar attack on Kibbutz Nahal Oz near the Gaza border. In another attack, a rocket struck a synagogue in the coastal city of Ashdod.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Hamas would continue to pay a heavy price for what he called the "crimes that it's perpetrating."
The current conflict could last through September, he said.
"We are determined to complete the mission. We are patient. Operation Protective Edge will continue until its goals are reached," Netanyahu said.
Hamas publicly executed 18 Palestinians it accused of collaborating with Israel. Human rights groups across the political spectrum condemned the executions.
Meanwhile, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said he plans to unveil what he called an "unconventional solution" to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Abbas linked his future with Hamas despite Israel's revelation last week that the terror group planned to overthrow him.
"This delegation includes all Palestinian factions, including Hamas, in order to return to the negotiation table, to achieve a long-term ceasefire and to discuss other issues on the negotiation table afterwards," Abbas said.
But negotiations with Hamas remain a non-starter for Israel since the group's main goals are killing Jews and destroying the Jewish state.
