White House on Thursday behind efforts to support Israel's military response to the Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas ruled Gaza Strip fired rockets in threes. Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications Lodz (Ben Rhodes) said that the Israeli government "regardless of the follow-up punitive air strikes, ground attack.

"Our view is that Israel has the right to self-defense, regardless of indiscriminate threat of rockets fired from Gaza, their citizens are facing," Rhodes told reporters in a conference call.

When asked about the Obama administration will have any problems with the Israeli ground offensive, Rhodes said, "In the end, the Israeli government decision on how they carried out military targets."

According to the Associated Press on Thursday, Hamas fired more than 200 rockets, killing three people, while Israel seems to prepare the ground offensive on Gaza. The escalating conflict as U.S. President Barack Obama's first major foreign policy test since Nov. 6 to win re-election. Rhodes said that U.S. officials in close consultation with their Israeli counterparts "to have an understanding of their own plans forward." Obama administration has been in discussions with Turkey, Egypt, our European partners, "he said, I thought they called on armed groups to stop the rocket attacks of Hamas shaking.

"At the United Nations, which is under discussion, we want to keep the focus, it should be incentives Hamas rocket attacks," Rhodes explained.

"We also said that the best course of action would be an ordinary escalating violence, but the burden of proof is on Hamas and those who have influence on Hamas to help to bring the upgrade, so we can not see widening of the conflict, "he told reporters. "Therefore, we must see a downgrade, we certainly hope to see a wider range of collision avoidance."

The official pointed out, the White House urged Israel to take all steps to avoid civilian casualties. "He added," We deeply regret the loss of life in Israel and the Palestinian side. '

In the United States, Michael Oren, Israel to the operation of the key senators. These Members Democrats and Republicans issued a joint statement expressing "solidarity" with Israel, and warned: "upgrade will only lead to further suffering of both sides."



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