nicolas benicoeur

<Yet again Hamas agrees to a 'Ceasefire' and then a few hours later the
Israelis fire rockets into Palestinian territories to make sure it never
happens. Sharon DOES NOT WANT PEACE!!!>

Israelis kill two after Hamas 'agrees to stop suicide attacks'
By Justin Huggler in Jerusalem
The Independent
26 June 2003

Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups have agreed to stop suicide
bombings and other attacks on Israelis in a three-month ceasefire,
unconfirmed reports said yesterday. But senior figures inside Hamas denied
it, and shortly after the ceasefire reports emerged Israeli helicopters
fired rockets into two cars in the southern Gaza Strip in an attack on
militants that could wreck any agreement.

Two people were killed in the strike, near the town of Khan Younis, one of
them a woman. The target appeared to be Mohammed Sayem, a Hamas militant,
who survived but was wounded and had to have his leg amputated. Palestinian
security sources said Mr Sayem was on Israel's wanted list. He was in one
car and the two people killed were in the other, a taxi.

Israel, which has been under intense pressure from the United States to halt
assassinations, claimed it had fired on a group of Hamas militants who were
about to fire rockets at an Israeli target, a settlement or a military base,
inside the Gaza Strip.

Shortly before, Kadoura Fades, a senior official in the ruling Palestinian
party Fatah, told reporters that the leading militant groups including Hamas
had agreed to a three-month ceasefire. The Palestinian Prime Minister, Abu
Mazen, has been trying to persuade Hamas and other militants to agree to a
truce so he can end militant violence, under the road-map peace plan backed
by US President George Bush.

The timing of yesterday's rocket attack, immediately after the ceasefire
reports emerged, will raise concerns. Mr Fades said, in the ceasefire
do***ent signed by militant leaders, they demand that Israel stops its
assassinations of militants, and military incursions into Palestinian towns,
and call for Palestinian prisoners to be released.

The Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, has been repeatedly accused of
timing assassinations to prevent Palestinian militants agreeing to
ceasefires. In a poll for the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, 40 per
cent of Israelis said they believed Mr Sharon ordered the attempted
assassination of Abd al-Aziz Rantisi two weeks ago, in a deliberate attempt
to delay the road-map. Hamas retaliated for that attempt with a suicide
bombing in Jerusalem that killed 17 people.

There were conflicting signals from Hamas yesterday. Mr Rantisi said the
ceasefire deal was not final. "In the coming days we will have an answer,"
he said, adding in an apparent reference to the helicopter attack: "Israeli
terrorist actions will be taken into account when we decide." But another
Hamas leader, Mahmoud Zahar, dismissed the reports of an agreement. "This is
all lies," he said.

There are believed to be divisions within Hamas. Mr Fares said the deal had
been clinched by Marwan Barghouti, a senior figure in Fatah being tried by
an Israeli court on charges of involvement in militant attacks who sent
messages to militant leaders from his prison cell.

The final deal was signed by Khaled Mashal, a Hamas leader based in Syria,
and Ramadan Shalah, the leader of the smaller Islamic Jihad group, who is
also in Syria. Mohammed al-Hindi, the senior Islamic Jihad leader in the
Gaza Strip, said there was a deal, and arrangements were being made for a
formal announcement.

Mr Barghouti signed for Fatah. A third militant group, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs
Brigades, has strong links with Fatah and it is believed Mr Barghouti's
signature means most cells of the Al-Aqsa Brigades will honour the
ceasefire.

But Israel dismissed the ceasefire, saying it was an "internal arrangement"
for the Palestinians, and reiterated its demand that Palestinian security
forces crack down on Hamas and the other militants and disarm them.

ed

WRONG! Israel doesn't want the existence of Hamas and groups like them. A
ceasefire isn't enough. The entire terrorist infrastructure MUST be
dismantled and totally eliminated. Nothing short of that will result in
peace. A ceasefire is just a temporary measure. What is needed is a
permanent guarantee.

nicolas benicoeur

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And I want a yacht, a Lear Jet and my own Island in the Caribbean.

nicolas benicoeur

Hamas is a pragmatic organisation. They will never actually state that they
are suspending their grievances against Israel, but will instead give
assurances to Arab leaders and hint at ceasefires.

Their strength comes from their outward image of resistance, but behind
closed doors they are every bit as willing to conduct secret ceasefire
deals. Israel by acting dumb is only further promoting this cycle of
violence.

sptrap2000

Newsflash.
The terrorist wounded in the strike was on his way to fire mortar
grenades into an Israeli village.

tilly

There is no ceasefire and if there is going to be one it will not be for
days according to Hamas, the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade and Islamic Jihad.

Refer: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3022322.stm


Tilly

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russell ranshaw

Hey Ragnar,

What is your personal interest in this? Are you paid to write these emails?
Who do you work for? Tell me now!!!


wasn't any "ceasefire" in place when the Israelis attacked. Press
announcements don't count as official, especially when "senior figures
inside Hamas denied it".

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So many idiots, so few comets.

blondes gaulloises

First the Jews invaded and occupied their country, now they called them
terrorists.WOW!!

napoleon chirac

Yes! You tell us now!!! hahahahahahahahahahaha

napoleon chirac

Hamas considering ceasefire with Israel is a lie, that is truth. and

That is why the palestinians (for lack of a better name) have been kicked
out of Jordan. Egypt does not want Gaza. They don't get along very well with
the Lebanese either. They deserve to live with dignity like anyone else, but
Hamas and other miliant groups (funded by outsiders) have to go.


Barghouti's