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Mashaal lists conditions to cease-fire
 Hamas is ready to accept a temporary truce with Israel provided the Israelis halt their targeted killings and release Palestinian prisoners, Hamas leader in Beirut Khaled Mashaal said in remarks published Tuesday. In an interview with the pan-Arab newspaper Al-Hayat, Mashaal said that recent meetings between Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and Palestinian factions had produced "positive results." The talks had focused on their halting attacks on Israel to pave the way for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations to resume. "There is a talk about pacification," Mashaal said, referring to a truce. "But it is a conditional pacification whereby the (Israeli) occupation must abide by specific conditions. The most important of which is the cessation of all kinds of aggression, invasion, assassination, killings and the release of all Palestinian prisoners." "If the (Israeli) enemy abides by these conditions, we, in Hamas, and other resistance forces in general, are ready to deal positively with the issue of pacification or temporary truce," Mashaal told the London-based newspaper, which did not say when and where the interview was conducted. Posted by: Fred 2005-01-25 |
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