Israel and the Palestinians agreed to a cease-fire Saturday to end a five-month Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip and the firing of rockets by Palestinian militants into the Jewish state, officials from the two sides said. The cease-fire was to go into effect at 6 a.m. Sunday (11 p.m. Saturday EST), both sides said.
The agreement was reached after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas telephoned Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert late Saturday to tell him that all Palestinian militant groups had pledged to stop rocket attacks
Nabil Abu Rdeneh, an Abbas spokesman, later confirmed that Palestinian armed factions — including those allied to the Hamas militant group — had agreed to stop their military activities in Gaza and reinstate a truce reached in Egypt in February 2005. "There is a signed agreement between the president and Prime Minister (Ismail) Haniyeh and all the Palestinian factions to resort to the agreement of the factions in Cairo in 2005, including ceasing all the military activity from Gaza, starting from Sunday morning," Abu Rdeneh said. "The Israeli prime minister has agreed, and it is going to start tomorrow morning."
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, call me Olmert.