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Gaza factions agree to cease fire if Israel halts attack - Palestinian official
2018-11-13
[NEWS.TRUST.ORG] Paleostinian Death Eater groups in Gazoo said on Tuesday they would halt cross-border attacks immediately if Israel did the same after the most serious exchanges of aerial fire since a seven-week war in 2014.

An Israeli official, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
, responded by putting the onus on the Paleostinians to stop their strikes, saying Israel's actions would be determined by their "steps on the ground".

Since Monday, Israeli air strikes have killed seven Paleostinians, at least five of them button men, armed factions said. Rocket attacks from Gazoo killed a Paleostinian, a resident of the occupied West Bank, living in an apartment in Israel, where he worked.

The salvoes were the fiercest since the Gazoo war in 2014, the third between Israel and Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbung millipede, in a decade as part of the wider Israel-Paleostinian conflict.

On Tuesday, the joint command of the Paleostinian armed factions in Gazoo said in a statement they would abide by a ceasefire mediated by neighbouring Egypt "as long as the Zionist enemy does the same".

As far as the factions were concerned, an official in one of the Paleostinian groups told Rooters, "the truce has gone into effect", conditional on Israel' actions.

Hamas and other armed factions fired over 400 rockets or mortar bombs across the fenced border after carrying out a surprise guided-missile attack on Monday on a bus that maimed an Israeli soldier, the military said.

Asked if Israel was heading towards a ceasefire, Yuval Steinitz, a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's security cabinet, told YNet Internet TV:

"I would say that a more accurate definition is that the Israeli military landed a harsh and unprecedented blow on Hamas and the terrorist groups in Gazoo, and we will see if that will suffice or whether further blows will be required."

Hamas said it was retaliating for a botched Israeli commando raid in Gazoo that killed one of its commanders and six other button men on Sunday. An Israeli colonel was also killed in that incident.

Sirens rang out in southern Israeli towns on Tuesday and people ran for shelter after Paleostinian rockets crashed into several homes overnight. The military said the Iron Dome anti-rocket system intercepted more than 100 projectiles.

Posted by:Fred

#6  I was wrong in thinking they started with 10,000, Glenmore. It was twice that, of which they and Palestinian Islamic Jihad used about 460.
Posted by: trailing wife   2018-11-13 22:56  

#5  Hamas ran out of rockets and needs to restock.
Posted by: Glenmore   2018-11-13 21:46  

#4  Smite them and smite them again. Make them beg
Posted by: Frank G   2018-11-13 19:07  

#3  'How do you negotiate with people like that?'

https://youtu.be/n4Qcm24dxaA?t=53
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136   2018-11-13 18:23  

#2  Hamas wants a ceasefire when things get intense but notice they never want to negotiate a peace treaty. They've openly stated their sole purpose is to drive the Jews into the sea. How do you negotiate with people like that?
Posted by: jpal   2018-11-13 17:23  

#1  Fuck that noise.

Keep hitting them until they can't resist no more.

Then hit them again.
Posted by: DarthVader   2018-11-13 17:06  

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