Sejumlah kelompok pejuang  menembakkan roket-roket ke Israel dari Jalur Gaza meskipun gencatan  senjata itu, dan Peretz mengatakan  negara Yahudi  tidak akan membiarkan  para pejuang tetap kuat dan dipersenjatai, di Jalur Gaza.
Some hardline groups have carried on firing rockets into Israel from Gaza despite the truce, and Peretz said the Jewish state would not allow the continued strengthening and arming of fighters in the coastal strip.