Original sentence: " Time Magazine reports that he repeated the statement to reporters in the Parliamentary cafeteria.IDF officers told Time that incursions would force Palestinian militants "to exert their energy by defending their homes in the camps instead of by plotting attacks on Israelis.In the context of escalating retaliatory attacks between Palestinian fighters and the Israeli army, Sharon told his inner Cabinet in early March: "The Palestinians must be hit, and it must be very painful... We must cause them losses, victims, so that they feel a heavy price.Time and other media outlets interpreted his comment as setting the tone for the Operation launched a little more than a month later, the broadest military offensive since the outbreak of violence in 2000