'Israel ready for another war with Hamas'

Jerusalem, Feb 23: Israel’s defence minister said on Monday that Israel was preparing for the possibility of another round of fighting against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Defence Minister Moshe Ya’alon made the comments on board USS Carney, an American battleship currently located in Haifa amid a joint US-Israeli military drill, Xinhua news agency reported. “We’ve been enjoying unprecedented quiet, Hamas hasn’t fired one bullet,” Ya’alon told reporters on Monday, referring to the relative quiet since the end of the 2014 war between Israel and Hamas. The defence minister also acknowledged an increase in Hamas’s strength.(IANS)