Injured troops want op to ‘go all the way’

21 July 2014, 9:01 am

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Members of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee knew how difficult the sort of fighting Israeli troops would encounter in Gaza was, and therefore were not surprised to learn that 13 soldiers were killed Sunday in the Shejaiya neighborhood, MK Ze’ev Elkin says.

“This is war of no-choice to save Israeli lives,” he says at a meeting of the committee, which he heads. “It is possible that we will be required to continue paying high prices, but this is a war for our home.”

Elkin visited injured soldiers in the hospital yesterday and says they all asked to pass on the message that they wish that Operation Protective Edge not be concluded “without going all the way,” he says.

— Raphael Ahren