Officials: Israel won't let Gaza border breach threaten security

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"Israel will not allow the continuation of the current state where its security interests are being compromised," the officials said, days after the Hamas regime blew up the barrier along the Strip's border with Egypt.

The officials added that Prime Minster Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas see eye to eye on what they perceive as the need to refrain from negotiations with Hamas. Following the border breach, Israeli defense officials have expressed concerns that militants from the Gaza Strip may attack towns along Israel's long border with Sinai.

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Palestinian sources who attended the Olmert and Abbas meeting told Haaretz that Olmert is seeking to transfer the responsibility for humanitarian problems in the Strip to Egypt.

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Israeli officials have said that Olmert has so far rejected the idea of Abbas' government controlling the border crossings.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/948558.html

[Ian David]

1. Maybe they'll work-out an agreement where Egypt has the Palestinians on alternate weeks...

... but Israel gets them one weekend a month and on certain holidays.