“British legislators have urged their government to engage in talks with "moderate elements" within Hamas, saying that the Quartet's policy of shunning the Palestinian group until it accepted previous understandings with Israel, i.e. renounced violence and came to terms with Israel's existence, had proven to be counterproductive ” the Jerusalem.

For the first time in over a month, Palestinian terrorists on Thursday evening fired a Kassam rocket into southern Israel. The rocket landed in an open area in the Sdot Negev region and did not cause any physical casualties or property damage. The previous rocket attacks on the southern Negev.