Kidnappers demand time to rearm and reload
Terrorist groups in Gaza are saying they agree to a cease-fire starting at midnight:
Militant Terrorist 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.
Nothing about returning the kidnapped soldier, of course.
July 22nd, 2006 at 1:19 pm
Hudna in Gaza…
Laurence Simon posting on Meryl Yourish’s site Militant Terrorist 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 o…
July 22nd, 2006 at 1:39 pm
The Best Blogs You’ve (Probably) Never Read…
Time for a new feature… I am gonna share the best of the lesser-known blogs that I find in my web surfing.
Today’s entry is Yourish.com, run by a young lady named Meryl Yourish, who doesn’t mince wor……
July 22nd, 2006 at 2:01 pm
Gaza groups agree to stop firing at Israel…
It looks like they need to take time out to rearm.
If they want peace, all they have to do is free their hostage, and stop firing rockets into Israel….
July 22nd, 2006 at 2:23 pm
This isn’t football, folks……
Since Meryl is down for the count, I’ll ask: Is AP really the credentialed ambassador to the world of Hamas? If so, good to know….
July 22nd, 2006 at 10:01 pm
“Nothing about returning the kidnapped soldier, of course. ”
Yea. I wonder what the survival rate ratio is for captured Israeli soldiers by the Palestinians/Arabic Countries?
I bet the life/death ratio is far, far worse than for Prisoners of War held by Japan in WWII. Or for the Soviet Union for that matter…
And where is Amnesty International in regards to the Geneva Conventions?
Where are their requests to see the Prisoner or Prisons? Where is their outrage?
July 22nd, 2006 at 11:20 pm
MidEast War: XXXI…
July 22, 2006 18:00 PDT Frequent updates. Scroll. Previous coverage @ right. Links to Lebanese and Israeli bloggers covering the conflict are @ Truth Laid Bear, plus a map view with pointers to the location of the bloggers in war……
July 22nd, 2006 at 11:56 pm
The hudna didn’t last long. They are already firing Kassams into Israel.