The head of the National Security Counsi, Tzachi Hanegbi, said at noon that the Islamic Jihad has 6,000 rockets in its arsenal, noting that Hamas has four times as many - about 24,000.
According to Hanegbi, "The Egyptians are always trying as usual. They failed to convince the jihadists to stop firing. We will certainly not commit to stopping targeted countermeasures. Our goal is 'silence will be met with silence'".