WASHINGTON (AFP) — Israel's delegate Prime Minister Shimon Peres has said that his region would prosecute Palestinian government officials captured in connection with the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier.

WASHINGTON (AFP) — Israel's delegate Prime Minister Shimon Peres has said that his region would prosecute Palestinian government officials captured in connection with the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier.

"They will be state to trial," he told CNN's "Late Edition" onward Sunday.

"And they will be accused of participating, supporting terroristic acts against the civilian government" he said.

Israel last week detained scores of Hamas members in the West Bank, including eight ministers and more than 20 lawmakers and revok the Jerusalem residency of four others in a of the present day wave of air raids and warning it would use all its power to released a soldier captured by militants a week ago.

Pere spoke after Israel struck at the heart of the Palestinian rule on Sunday. Helicopters hit the Gaza office of the Hamas premier Ismail Haniya, setting the building ablaze.

However, he told CNN Israel was not trying