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Netanyahu: Iran has recently accelerated nuclear program.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Monday that Iran’s nuclear program has accelerated recently as it appears Iran feels less international pressure, Israel Radio reported.

Speaking to EU ambassadors to Israel, Netanyahu also commented on the recent conflict that has broken out along Israel’s border with Gaza, saying that Hamas deliberately fired a rocket at the school bus that was hit last Thursday, and that it was a criminal act.

No country, the prime minister continued, can accept such action and Israel will act to protect its citizens.

He charged that in the past the “international community rushed to judgment” regarding Israel’s response to terror attacks.

The prime minister’s comments came hours after Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman spoke out against a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. “Hamas is fighting a war of attrition against us. We won’t come to terms with a situation in which they decide when there’s quiet and when the area heats up,” he told Israel Radio.

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