HAMAS is getting its butt kicked and wants time to regroup and rearm. Israel would be committing national suicide to agree to a truce. Now is the time to step up the military pressure in Gaza. B
Hamas agrees to Gaza truce, Israel reply awaited: official Latest related coverage January 15, 2009 - 6:05AM Sydney Morning Herald Hamas has accepted an Egyptian ceasefire proposal to end the war in the Gaza Strip and Cairo is awaiting Israel's response, a senior Egyptian diplomat told AFP on Wednesday. "We have obtained Hamas's agreement and are awaiting the response from Israel," whose envoy is due in Cairo on Thursday, the diplomat said, requesting anonymity. "We will see when (Israeli defence official) Amos Gilad comes," he added, putting the ball in the Israeli camp. Gilad is due in Cairo on Thursday. The Gaza-based Hamas delegation was due to give a press conference in Cairo later on Wednesday. Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos also told reporters in Jerusalem earlier that Hamas has accepted the Egyptian initiative. "Hamas is going to publicly express its support and acceptance," Moratinos, the European Union's former Middle East envoy, told reporters. Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit said earlier that Hamas had told Egypt its position on the truce proposal, which Egypt would give to Gilad on Thursday. "We will tell the Israelis what we have obtained from our brothers Hamas," Abul Gheit said, with more than one in 300 Gazans dead or wounded in the assault on the built-up territory of 1.5 million. More than 1000 Palestinians have been killed in the 19-day-old offensive, and 4,500 wounded, according to Palestinian medics. AFP . <http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=97359714/grpId=11648958/grpspId=1705447214/msgI d=84110/stime=1231979300/nc1=3848627/nc2=3848641/nc3=4836038> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [email protected]. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [email protected] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
