Summary An Israeli air strike killed two Palestinians in the enclave Sunday.
TEL AVIV (AFP) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that his Gaza offensive would continue as long as necessary, a day after an Egyptian call for a ceasefire and new truce talks.
"Operation Protective Edge will continue until its aims are achieved... it may take time," he said of the Gaza Strip operation launched on July 8, in remarks broadcast by public radio.
An Israeli air strike killed two Palestinians in the enclave Sunday.
The pace of Israeli raids was slower than Saturday when at least 60 strikes pounded Gaza, killing 10 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and bringing down a 12-storey apartment block.
But there was no sign of either side adopting the ceasefire Egypt appealed for on Saturday to allow negotiators to return to Cairo to thrash out the details of a durable truce.
Israeli aircraft hit 20 "terror targets" in Gaza Sunday morning.
An Israeli strike on the western side of Gaza City killed two Palestinians and wounded five, emergency services said.
Since a previous round of frantic Egyptian diplomacy collapsed on Tuesday, shattering nine days of calm, 88 Palestinians and a four-year-old Israeli boy have been killed in the violence.
