31 Dec - Armed Palestinian groups in Gaza have decided to halt rocket attacks on Israel, a senior Islamic Jihad commander announced yesterday. “We agreed to halt one of the means of armed resistance -- which is firing rockets at Israel -- to avoid Israeli threats,” said Daoud Shihab, an Islamic Jihad spokesman, “but the armed resistance will keep active by confronting [Israeli] raids and incursions.” The decision to suspend rocket attacks, however, was “temporary” and “linked to the situation on the ground”. The agreement among smaller factions based in Gaza, reached on Wednesday at a meeting called by Hamas, coincides with rising tensions due to an escalation of Palestinian rocket strikes on Israel and Israeli retaliatory action.
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Oh dear! This means that the Israelis are going to have to commit another atrocity to get things going again.
ReplyDelete<span>Exactly. It rarely makes any difference to the war plans in sotre any way..</span>
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