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| Gaza groups agree to stop firing at Israel |
| 2006-07-22 |
| GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Militant groups in the Gaza Strip have agreed to stop firing missiles at Israel at midnight Saturday, senior Palestinian officials said. The unilateral cease-fire is aimed at ending an Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip that began June 28, three days after militants raided an Israeli army post, killing two soldiers and capturing a third, 19-year-old Cpl. Gilad Shalit, the officials said on condition of anonymity because the agreement was reached at a closed meeting. More than 100 Palestinians have been killed since then in daily attacks by Israeli warplanes, tanks and artillery, and the militants have fired hundreds of homemade rockets at southern Israel. The agreement was reached in Gaza City following meetings sponsored by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh aimed at finding a way out of the crisis in Gaza, the officials said. Several Palestinian militant groups attended, including Haniyeh's Hamas and Islamic Jihad, which have been blamed for many of the rocket attacks on southern Israel, the officials said. The Israeli Defense Forces said it had no immediate comment about the militants' cease-fire. In fighting in Gaza on Friday, four people — a Hamas activist and three relatives — were killed in an explosion at a home in Gaza City, hospital officials said. Palestinians said the house was hit by an Israeli tank shell. The Israeli military denied using artillery or tanks. Work accident. On Thursday, Israeli aircraft carried out a series of strikes against Palestinian militants in the Mughazi refugee camp in central Gaza, the army said. Two militants were killed and at least 15 people, many of them civilians, were wounded, Palestinian medical officials said. Israeli forces pulled out of the camp Friday. |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #15 When the other side asks for a cease-fire, that means that your side is doing something right, so keep it up. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2006-07-22 22:46 |
| #14 the only reason a group asks or agrees to a cease fire is to re-arm it's forces. So, when you get them on the ropes, keep punching. |
| Posted by: Armylife 2006-07-22 17:43 |
| #13 Latest...what agreement to stop ? Gazers declare ignorance....well that settles that. |
| Posted by: Inspector Clueso 2006-07-22 16:51 |
| #12 It looks to me as if the Iranian troops that slid in last week need some time to build forces. Next month should be fun. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2006-07-22 15:10 |
| #11 Uneagum: My mistake. :-) |
| Posted by: gorb 2006-07-22 14:56 |
| #10 "naive" gorb - I think you misspelled "complicit". |
| Posted by: Uneagum Jaimp5940 2006-07-22 14:51 |
| #9 Hudnas are so last millenium. |
| Posted by: ed 2006-07-22 14:50 |
| #8 Ah, must be time to retreat, regroup, resupply, reequip, and rearm. Can't do that very well without a "cease fire", can we? Also makes for good press because the world community is so naive. |
| Posted by: gorb 2006-07-22 14:45 |
| #7 |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-07-22 14:06 |
| #6 Nothing but a PR campaign. "See, we offered cease-fire and Israelis still attack our baby ducks!" |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2006-07-22 14:04 |
| #5 I heard that same Fox report. I find the notion of any central authority agreeing to anything on behalf of the various terrorist groups in Gaza to be suspect. These groups have long histories of engaging in their own private wars with Israel, notwithstanding the position of the central authority. If one is to believe any central netogiating authority could cause it to end, one would also have to believe the central authority could have prevented it from starting in the first place. |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2006-07-22 13:55 |
| #4 No PRC or Gaza al-queda commitments, eh? It will NOT stop until the islamofascists are hunting down and exterminated. |
| Posted by: Brett 2006-07-22 13:52 |
| #3 Fox Interviewed the groups. First they had heard of agreeing to anything. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2006-07-22 13:49 |
| #2 Ran out weapons, did they? Or is it just a temporary case of brute-force syndrome. |
| Posted by: Poison Reverse 2006-07-22 13:45 |
| #1 just quoting the movie "Silverado" ...."where's the boy?" but you can if ya wants to quote the same movie about the Hezzie idiot..... "where's the dog?" |
| Posted by: mag44_vaquero 2006-07-22 13:44 |