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Hamas accepts 24-hour Gaza humanitarian truce
[Dhaka Tribune] Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, Islamist bully boyz have agreed to a 24-hour humanitarian truce
...The purposes of a truce are twofold: 1.) bring up more arms, ammunition, and reinforcements; and 2.) to get the enemy to relax his vigilance. A truce is not the same thing as a ceasefire, and a ceasefire doesn't mean you have to stop shooting...
in their conflict with Israel in the Gazoo Strip, a front man for the group said yesterday, hours after fighting between the sides resumed.

"It has been agreed among resistance factions to endorse a 24-hour humanitarian calm," Hamas front man Sami Abu Zuhri
...a senior spokesman for Hamas. Zuhri gained notoriety in 2006 when he dropped his money belt containing somewhere between 640,000 and 900,000 euros, which was confiscated by Paleostinian security and customs officials at a routine border crossing from Egypt to Gaza. The news brought competing Hamas and Fatah forces to the crossing checkpoint for an epic face-making and hollering contest...
told Rooters, saying the calm should start at 2.00 p.m. (1100 GMT).

An Israeli official said the truce was being reviewed.

However,
ars longa, vita brevis...
as 2.00 p.m. came and went, the sound of heavy Israeli shelling could be heard within Gazoo and sirens sounded in Israeli communities near the border area, suggesting Paleostinian bully boyz had fired missiles at them.

Israel had called off its own 24-hour truce earlier in the day after Hamas launched rockets into southern and central Israel, and Paleostinian medics said at least 10 people had died in the wave of subsequent strikes that swept Gazoo.

Some 1,060 Paleostinians, mainly civilians and including many children, have been killed in the 20-day conflict. Israel says 43 of its soldiers have died, along with three civilians killed by rocket and mortar fire out of the Mediterranean enclave.

Israel and the Hamas Islamists who control Gazoo had agreed to a 12-hour ceasefire on Saturday to allow Paleostinians to stock up on supplies and retrieve bodies from under the rubble.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet decided to extend the quiet until midnight on Sunday, on condition that its forces could continue to track down and destroy myrmidon tunnels that criss-cross the Gazoo border.

After initially rejecting the extension, Hamas front man Abu Zuhri said Hamas had accepted a UN truce request on Sunday in light of the upcoming Mohammedan holiday of Eid al-Fitr, which is expected to start in the next couple of days.

Netanyahu was due to convene his cabinet later on Sunday to decide how to move forward, and at least one senior minister said Israel must step up its offensive.

"After what we saw this morning, it is clear we need to resume fighting with even greater force," Communications Minister Gilad Erdan told Army Radio.
Posted by: Fred 2014-07-28
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