Olmert says Gaza operation will continue
Posted: 12:14 PM ET

JERUSALEM (CNN) — On the fifth day of airstrikes on Gaza, Israel's prime minister vowed Wednesday the operation would not end until Hamas militants quit firing rockets into the Jewish state.
"We did not enter this operation in order to end it with the firing still continuing," Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said in a security cabinet meeting, according to a senior government official.
"Hamas broke this cease-fire," Olmert said. "If the conditions ripen" and if there is a solution "that promises a better security … we will consider it, but we are not there yet," he said, according to the official.