Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert rules out peace talks with Hamas while threatening the Islamic resistance with painful measures.

"We are not talking to Hamas and we are not going to compromise with someone that is consistently shooting rockets on the heads of Israelis," said Olmert in a news conference in al-Quds on Wednesday.

"We will deal with Hamas in other ways and these ways will be very painful."

According to Israeli published reports, since June 2004 thirteen people have been killed as a result of rocket attacks fired at Israeli targets.

Earlier this month, a five-day Israeli offensive in northern Gaza, aimed to stop rocket fire, killed more than 120 Palestinians, most of them civilians.

The talks on a possible truce could also include the reopening the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt, which was blasted open by Palestinians in January in defiance of an Israeli-led siege on the territory.

The Zionist regime is under pressure from the international community to ease its disabling restrictions on Gaza's 1.5 million inhabitants.

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