Quoting
the presstitutes for the bare facts.
What exactly is the price of one Jewish life? How many hundreds of Palestinians?
Israel
says missing soldier is dead
The
Israeli military says a soldier reported missing in Gaza on Friday is
dead.
BBC,
2
July 2014, 00.05 GMT
Hadar
Goldin was believed to have been captured by militants during
fighting, leading to the collapse of a ceasefire shortly after it had
been declared.
The
Israel Defense Forces said it had determined that Lt Goldin,
previously considered captured, had died.
Israeli
PM Benjamin Netanyahu has said the operation in Gaza will continue
according to Israel's security needs.
Hamas
had denied it was holding the 23-year-old captive, saying it did not
know the soldier's whereabouts.
The
military wing of Islamist group said it had lost contact with some
fighters in the area where Israel said the soldier had been seized.
It
said it believed the fighters and possibly Lt Goldin had been killed
in an Israeli airstrike.
Israel's
defence minister and the chief military rabbi met the soldier's
family at their home in the town of Kfar Saba on Saturday night.
Hundreds
of well-wishers had gathered outside their home and there was an
outpouring of grief when the military's announcement was made public.
It
is understood the army came to its conclusion after examining DNA
evidence, reports the BBC's Bethany Bell in Jerusalem.
Confirmation
of Lt Goldin's death means 66 Israelis have now died in the fighting,
all but two of them soldiers.
Some
1,670 Palestinians, mostly civilians, have been killed since the
conflict began more than three weeks ago.
'Intolerable
price'
Earlier,
Prime Minister Netanyahu vowed to continue the Israeli offensive in
Gaza until "we achieve our objective of restoring security to
you, Israeli's citizens".
"Hamas
again mistakenly believes that the people of Israel do not have the
will and determination to fight them and Hamas again will learn the
hard way that Israel will do whatever it must do to protect its
people," he said.
The
Islamist group would pay an "intolerable price" for attacks
on Israel, Mr Netanyahu added.
Hamas
spokesman Fawzi Barhoum dismissed Mr Netanyahu's comments as
"confused" and said the group would "continue to
resist until we achieve our goals".
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