Hamas declares Israel truce over The Islamist militant group Hamas says it has ended its six-month ceasefire with Israel in the Gaza Strip. Hamas had earlier said it would not be renewing the truce when it expired at 0400 GMT on Friday. The Egyptian-brokered deal began on 19 June but has been tested regularly by Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel and Israeli operations in Gaza. Israel said it would like to renew the truce, but Hamas said Israel failed to ease its blockade of Gaza. Israeli officials insist they never made a commitment to do so. Both sides have accused the other or regularly infringing the truce. "The ceasefire is over and there won't be a renewal because the Zionist enemy has not respected its conditions," Hamas said in a statement carried on its website. As the expiry of the ceasefire neared, both sides said they would respond to any attack from the other party but would not take the offensive. "We issue a warning to the Zionist enemy: all attacks against the Gaza Strip or any new crime will trigger a large-scale confrontation and we will retaliate very fiercely," said the Hamas statement. Speaking to Israel's Haaretz newspaper before the ceasefire was declared over by Hamas, Defence Minister Ehud Barak said the truce had been beneficial. "Of course the tahadiyeh (calm) was not a mistake," he told Haaretz. "If the quiet continues, there will be quiet. If the calm breaks, we will operate." However, there have been regular outbreaks of violence in recent weeks with Palestinian factions firing rockets at Israel from Gaza and Israel responding with airstrikes. source
When a country is trying to eliminate the people by slowly trapping them to their death, you really think the people who are suffering will want to "renew" whatever it is called "truce".. seriously, if Israel will not remove the blockades, the blocking of supplies, constant push, who's going to think of peace? It's all over the news if you really want to know,..
Stop firing rockets and bombing Jews and the Palestinian situation will vastly improve. Keep it up and suffer the consequences. Is that simple enough for even you to follow?
Hold on a minute, so Israel can occupy all it wants and you want the people suffering NOT to resist? What double standards are these? Former President J, Carter is right, Israel is like South Africa was, an Apartheid. People are not crazy that they will fire rockets for no reason at all. There must be something going on which is why they do whatever they can to RESIST. Resistance is not in the American vocabulary I bet, all the Americans know how to do is bomb other countries. All resistance is just terrorism... pathetic.
Isn't the media wonderful? So much propaganda.. This is nothing about religion dude, Jews, Christians and Muslims been living together for thousands of years PEACEFULLY. This situation is about LAND and POWER. If your too blind to see that then refrain from commenting
Oops, my bad. I thought we were talking about Hamas and Israel here. But what was I thinking. Most wars over "land and power" involve suicide bombing and one side wanting to wipe the other off the face of the earth. Sorry but it looks like what we have here is a case of a fight that's been going on for so long the fighters don't even remember what they were fighting about. All they're left with is hate. Do you know why this "land" you speak of is so important? Because it happens to be the "Holy Land". Apparently promised by God to the descendants of Abraham through his son Isaac and to the Israelites So yeah.... though it's been vastly politicized in order to gain support outside of religious believers, make no mistake about what the underlying cause of this conflict is.
Crusades man. Not very peaceful if you ask me. Oh, that wasn't thousands of years either. That was less than a thousand years ago. So, in reality, it hasn't really been that long (in the big scheme of things)
Wow, what do you think the revolutionary war was? Couldn't have been resistance. Again, with your hate. Thats right, all we know how to do is bomb other countries. Ignore the billions of dollars in foreign AID we give to all those countries every year. Ignore all the billions of dollars we give to the humanitarian relief funds of the United Nations. Where are you from?
It's not just Muslims who are resisting the Israeli apartheid. Palestinian Christians who live in Bethlehem and other citys in the West Bank are sick of it too. Don't let anyone tell you this conflict is about religion, because it's not..it's all about the THEFT OF LAND and ETHNIC CLEANSING.
Israel came and stole the land because of the Palestinian agression? There was no agression before the zionist inbreds started mass migrating.
Is that why there are all those Palestinian Christian suicide bombers? It is true that the Palestinian Christians hate that the Palestinian terror groups that would rather kill Jews than simply live in peace. Everyone, including Palestinian Christians are sick of the terrorists like Hamas who keep the entire region from living in peace.
No they're not, they're the result of religious intolerance. Please, tell me, your not that ignorant. If they were a real army they would put on a uniform, not be scared to show their face, and abide by the geneva convention.
Please tell me, you are not this ignorant. The fight is for land, Israel hasn't stolen Islam, they have stolen the Palestinians LAND. And Intolerance of what? Intolerance of occupation? I would be more worried if people WERE tolerant towards occupation. "As Israeli soldiers shell and kill Palestinians indiscriminately, Palestinian suicide bombers strap themselves with explosives and kill Israelis indiscriminately." These young people were not born "terrorists". No one is born a terrorist. They were born in the image and likeness of God. They were born human beings with love of life and freedom. All of them, with no exception, were born under the Israeli military occupation. The only Jews they knew were Israeli soldiers carrying guns and dehumanizing them. It was in the crucible of the occupation that they were shaped and formed. And if Israel labels them as terrorists, they are, after all the product of its own making. As Israeli soldiers shell and kill Palestinians indiscriminately, Palestinian suicide bombers strap themselves with explosives and kill Israelis indiscriminately. http://peacepalestine.blogspot.com/2005/01/naim-ateek-suicide-bombing-from.html That is written by a Palestinian Christian.