Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday that he is doing all that he can to ensure Israel’s security. “I am doing everything so this country will be able to defend itself against its enemies and so that our children and grandchildren won’t live their lives filled with the suffering prevalent here,” he told a JNF conference in Jerusalem.

Earlier in the day local leaders from southern Israel accused the government of failing to protect residents of Israeli communities near Gaza. Terrorists killed a resident of Kfar Aza in a mortar shell attack over the weekend and fired dozens of rockets at Israeli towns, causing injuries and extensive damage to property.