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Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel's rightwing opposition leader and favourite to win next month's elections, said today Israel needed a "clear victory" against Hamas and that the movement should "ultimately be removed" from Gaza.

He called for a victory against the Islamist movement "that will cripple its capability" to attack. "At a minimum, the firing of rockets must stop and the smuggling corridors that have enabled Hamas to smuggle thousands of rockets into Gaza must be sealed," he told a news conference. "We are fighting a just war, perhaps the most just war there is."

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