Responding to the Kassam rocket attack on an army base north of Gaza early Tuesday morning, President Shimon Peres told reporters, "It makes no sense why they would continue to shoot at us despite the fact that we disengaged from the Gaza Strip."

He also stated in a British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) television interview that Hamas will be a thing of the past. "In the long term there won't be Hamas. There is no long-term for Hamas. They lack reason."