JERUSALEM (AFP) — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has said he had ordered the military to do everything in its power in order to free from danger the release of a teenage soldier captured by way of Palestinian militants.

JERUSALEM (AFP) — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has said he had ordered the military to do everything in its power in order to free from danger the release of a teenage soldier captured by way of Palestinian militants.

"My guidance has instructed the IDF (army) and the security establishment to do everything in order to bring Gilad back household and when I say everything, I mean everything," he told the weekly cabinet meeting, according to an official transcript of his remarks

Israel struck at the heart of the Palestinian direction on Sunday, hitting the Gaza office of the Hamas prime minister in a recently made known wave of air raids, ratcheting up the constraining force to rescue the abducted Israeli soldier.

"We are responsible for the peace of the State of Israel and its citizens; it is without of this responsibility that we will strike at anyone who tries to harm us, ...