As the war in the Middle East reached its 15^th day, Israeli forces bombarded and attacked Gaza while Hamas militants responded with a series of rockets directed to Israel. It appears that they are not keen on cooperating for an immediate end to the crisis that involves the lives of thousands of people.

Of the 1.5 million people in Gaza, over one half of the population relies on the food assistance of the United Nations. Israel has lately assured that it will not harm the UN workers in their aid distribution in the war-torn region.

The United Nations, as well as the Egyptian-European mediators has called for a halt to the Mideast fightings  but Israel is determined to press forward and stop the Hamas militants from launching rocket attacks on Israeli soil.

An Israeli cabinet member was quoted saying on the radio: “Israel is determined to deal with this matter until its positive conclusion, so that there is no terrorism in Gaza against Israel.”