Rice says 'high time' for Hamas to release Israeli soldier
AFP, July, 2006
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WASHINGTON (AFP) — US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said it was "high time" for Hamas to return an Israeli soldier whose abduction sparked an Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip.
Her spokesman meanwhile declined to condemn Israeli airstrikes on Palestinian government buildings, saying that Israel had the right to defend itself in the face of rocket attacks launched from Gaza.
Rice said she was calling on both Israelis and the Palestinians to exercise restraint as a new wave of Palestinian rockets rained down on Israeli territory, prompting return air and artillery fire from the Israeli side.
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But she said Hamas carried more blame for the upsurge of tensions and pressed for release of the soldier, 19-year-old Gilad Shalit,
"Their government, Hamas government, needs to respond to the root cause of this problem, and the root cause of this problem was the attack that took place and the ...
