Although the IDF said that a Hamas bomb detonated following a strike on a terror cell caused the death of a mother and her children in Gaza, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert apologized for the deaths at the weekly Cabinet Meeting.

PM Olmert said he was also pained by the fact that Jewish residents of the western Negev live under rocket fire.

Olmert said he hopes that there will soon be calm, something Army Radio said alluded to a possible agreement on a 'calm' with Hamas.