Likud MK Silvan Shalom said at the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting that "after two unilateral withdrawals from Lebanon, we have seen that the territories that were evacuated became terror bases." "In order to prevent the same situation in Gaza, the IDF must prepare for a preemptive strike…in order to make sure they won't use the many weapons that were smuggled into the Gaza Strip, against the home front in the south," he said.