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Hamas leader insists Israel will surrender on demands
A leader of the Hamas Islamic group today said he believed Israel would give in to the demands of Palestinian militants who kidnapped an Israeli soldier.Yehieh Mussa also called for international mediation between the sides in the affair that began when Palestinian militants attacked an Israeli army base near the Gaza Strip on Sunday and kidnapped a soldier. Israel believes the Hamas military wing is holding the soldier, although the group has not confirmed this. They are going to surrender, they are going to give in, Mussa said in an interview with a website affiliated with Hamas. International mediation is necessary to help solve the kidnapping crisis, Mussa said. He said international mediators were preferable to Arab interlocutors, including Egypt, because all Arabs should be firmly on the Palestinian side. Israel believes that Palestinian prime minister Ismail Haniyeh, of Hamas, is involved in contact with the militants to win the release of the soldier. Posted by: ryuge 2006-06-27 |
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