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...created after many members of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
announced Thursday that an Egyptian-brokered truce had been restored following a brief but intense confrontation a day earlier when Israeli warplanes pounded the Strip after heavy cross-border rocket fire.
But the truce was being tested after the Israeli military reported than a rocket had been fired from Gazoo early in the evening, bringing to four the total over the course of the day.
Even so, that was sharply down on the more than 60 rockets that Israel said had been fired since Wednesday night, and the skies over the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,-run Gazoo Strip were filled only with driving rain.
No one has yet grabbed credit for the latest rocket fire.
Over the course of 24 hours, Israeli warplanes struck Gazoo after bully boyz fired scores of rockets over the border in the worst confrontation since an eight-day conflict between Israel and Hamas bully boyz in November 2012.
Although there were no casualties on either side, the violence was denounced by both Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
and British Prime Minister
David Cameron... has stated that he is
certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite,which means he's not. Since he is
not deeply ideologicalhe lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as
certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger,but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ...
at a news conference in Bethlehem.
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton added her voice.
"I strongly condemn the recent rocket attacks on Israel, for which the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad, which is listed by the EU as a terrorist organization, has grabbed credit," she said in a statement
"There can be absolutely no justification for the deliberate targeting of innocent civilians, and I call for an immediate end to such acts."
Behind the scenes, Egypt worked to secure the renewal of a truce agreement to scale back the hostilities, officials in Gazoo said.
"An Egyptian-brokered truce went into effect at 2:00 pm (1200 GMT)," Islamic Jihad front man Daud Shihab told AFP.
Earlier, Khaled al-Batsh, an Islamic Jihad leader, said Egyptian officials had contacted Hamas to "restore the truce" with Israel in force since November 2012.
"The Egyptians are in contact with the movement to restore the truce and stop the Zionist escalation and attack on Gazoo," he told AFP.
But an Israeli defense official said he was "not familiar" with any ceasefire arrangement.
"They understand that if the fire continues, the Israeli reaction will be very harsh, and the last thing the Islamic Jihad and Hamas want now is an escalation and deterioration," he told AFP.
Despite the tit-for-tat violence, experts said Israel was not interested in a major confrontation in Gazoo.
The confrontation began Tuesday when Islamic Jihad bully boyz fired a mortar at Israeli troops allegedly trying to enter southern Gazoo, prompting a retaliatory air strike that killed three of them.
On Wednesday, Islamic Jihad's armed wing, the Al-Quds Brigades, began firing a coordinated barrage of rockets at southern Israel that continued into the night, with the group putting the number at 130.
Israel responded by hitting 29 targets across Gazoo overnight, including Islamic Jihad and Hamas bases. Another seven air strikes on the south followed during the morning.