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| Egypt mediating Gaza cease-fire: Hamas |
| 2014-07-05 |
| [ARABNEWS] Egypt was on Friday mediating a potential cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, which controls the Gazoo Strip, after a flare-up of violence across the border. "There are continuing Egyptian efforts to return calm to the Gazoo Strip, but no agreement has been reached yet," a Hamas official told AFP, on condition of anonymity. Hamas "told the Egyptian side they do not want an escalation," the official added, but gave no further details. Bassem Naim, a senior Hamas official in Gazoo, earlier told AFP: "Hamas is not interested in an escalation or war in Gazoo, but at the same time it is not possible for it to remain silent on the continued aggression against Gazoo and the West Bank." Tensions have risen around the Paleostinian territory in the past few weeks, with Lion of Islam rocket fire repeatedly hitting southern Israel, and dozens of retaliatory air strikes against Gazoo. Israel deployed troop reinforcements towards the Gazoo border on Thursday, the army said, stressing that it did not want an "escalation" either. The Hamas-Israel face-off follows a vast arrest operation against the movement's West Bank network, after the Jewish state blamed it for the kidnap and killing of three Israeli teenagers in the occupied territory. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Hamas ought not rejoice too soon. Recall, al-Sissi's Egypt has been teaming up with Israel to keep Gaza blockaded, blaming Hamas for smuggling Iranian arms to various Al Qaeda in the Sinai groups. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2014-07-05 07:56 |