From The BBC:The two leading candidates to become Israel's next prime minister have vowed if elected to topple the Palestinian Islamist movement, Hamas, in Gaza.
The threats by Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Likud party leader Binyamin Netanyahu came after PM Ehud Olmert warned against making bold statements.
A six-month Egyptian-brokered truce between Israel and Hamas, which runs Gaza, came to an end on Friday.
On Sunday rockets fired by militants in Gaza hit a house in the town of Sderot.
No-one was injured in the attack, though a worker at a nearby farming community was hurt when another device landed in a field.
The Israeli military has said militants fired some 30 rockets and mortar bombs into Israel on Saturday. A Palestinian militant was killed in an Israeli air strike.
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