The terrorists in Gaza say they’re going to stop firing rockets at Israel.
Palestinian armed groups in the Gaza Strip agreed on Sunday to stop firing rockets towards Israel, a Palestinian official told Ynet.
The official said the agreement was the fruit of talks between the dismissed Hamas government and representatives of armed groups responsible for daily rocket attacks against the Jewish state.
The official said that the agreement was sped up by the attack on the Zikim military base last week. The attack left 67 soldiers injured and increased public pressure on the government to launch a large-scale military operation in Gaza to halt the attacks.
The official said that the armed groups had been limiting their operations to attacks against Israeli soldiers operating in the Gaza Strip.
Shyeah. Two things about this:
1. It’s bullshit. The Palestinians will use any excuse to break the “truce” that they’re calling, such as the apprehension of a terrorist by the IDF, even if that terrorist is caught red-handed on a “martyrdom” operation.
2. Please note the boldfaced type above. This is an attempt to keep the IDF from finding, killing, and capturing the rocketeers, as well as taking out a substantial amount of terrorist infrastructure in Gaza. It is merely a technical, temporary cessation of hostilities.
Watch for this new “agreement” to break down almost immediately.
If they call a truce it will be like all the others, i.e. it will last a few days and then be ignored. And when Israel responds, the msm will refer sadly to “the cycle of violence that besets this war-torn land,” just as if if were a hurricane or some other natural phenomenon.
If they call a truce it is to benefit them ! Israel should clean Gaza out !!
Alex,
Almost right, the actual text of the new articles will be that the Israeli response “threatens the truce” because everyone knows that terrorist attacks don’t count against any truce/cease fire.