Israeli PM Orders Military To Do “Everything... Whatever Is Possible, Whatever Is Necessary” To Free Hostage Soldier...

Washington Post Scott Wilson July 2, 2006 at 10:39 PM

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert approved the opening of a key cargo crossing and pipeline into the Gaza Strip on Sunday to allow delivery of medicine, food and fuel here even as he ordered the military to "do everything" toward forcing the release of a captured Israeli soldier.

"When I say everything, I mean everything, whatever is possible, whatever is necessary," Olmert said before a cabinet meeting one week after Palestinian gunmen killed two soldiers and captured a 19-year-old corporal, Gilad Shalit, during an attack on an army post just outside Gaza.

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