Israel, Hamas agree to cease fire
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IDF believes Hamas, Islamic Jihad will honor cease-fire
Barak says truce is not an agreement but a set of understandings between Israel and Egypt, Hamas and Egypt, adds cease-fire could last 9 weeks or 9 months; IDF official says Hamas will be shocked by level of damage in Gaza.
Senior IDF officials on Thursday said they believe Hamas and Islamic Jihad are intending to implement the cease-fire with Israel and prevent other terror factions from firing into Israel, but Defense Minister Ehud Barak clarified that the truce was merely an understanding and not an actual agreement.
Mediated by Egypt, the cease-fire reached Wednesday night brought an end to eight days of airstrikes on Hamas and Islamic Jihad targets in Gaza, and thousands of rockets and shells fired at Israel from Gaza.
Terrorist factions are due to hold damage evaluations across Gaza and discover the considerable damage incurred to them during the week-long operation to repress rocket fire on southern Israel, a senior defense source said.
"There will be all sorts of 'victory' celebrations, in Gaza" a senior defense source said. "These can be interpreted in many ways."
Barak clarified that the cease-fire was not an agreement with Hamas but rather a document of understandings between Israel and Egypt, and between Egypt and Hamas. A document detailing the understandings was published by Hamas in order to boast its achievements, he said.
"There is no agreement. I am holding the paper in my hands," Barak told Israel Radio. Quiet will be met by quiet, he explained.
The IDF believes that contrary to the triumphalist public stance of Hamas, the Gaza regime is privately shocked by the level of damage it sustained.
Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, speaking in Cairo after the truce was announced by the Egyptians, said: "If Israel complies, we are compliant. If it does not comply, our hands are on the trigger."
If Israel needs to, it would send troops into the Gaza Strip, Barak told Israel Radio, but added, "The problem is not occupying Gaza, it's leaving."
"I do not miss Israeli control over Gaza. It is no way a simple thing, and I don't miss it," he said.
In the hours following the quiet in the South overnight Wednesday, the IDF arrested 55 terror suspects across the West Bank, following a wave of violent demonstrations in recent days, the army said.
The arrests included alleged organizers of riots from Hamas, Fatah, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, as well as members of parliament suspected of being involved in the violence.
IDF believes Hamas, Islamic Jihad will honor c... JPost - Defense
Barak says truce is not an agreement but a set of understandings between Israel and Egypt, Hamas and Egypt, adds cease-fire could last 9 weeks or 9 months; IDF official says Hamas will be shocked by level of damage in Gaza.
Senior IDF officials on Thursday said they believe Hamas and Islamic Jihad are intending to implement the cease-fire with Israel and prevent other terror factions from firing into Israel, but Defense Minister Ehud Barak clarified that the truce was merely an understanding and not an actual agreement.
Mediated by Egypt, the cease-fire reached Wednesday night brought an end to eight days of airstrikes on Hamas and Islamic Jihad targets in Gaza, and thousands of rockets and shells fired at Israel from Gaza.
Terrorist factions are due to hold damage evaluations across Gaza and discover the considerable damage incurred to them during the week-long operation to repress rocket fire on southern Israel, a senior defense source said.
"There will be all sorts of 'victory' celebrations, in Gaza" a senior defense source said. "These can be interpreted in many ways."
Barak clarified that the cease-fire was not an agreement with Hamas but rather a document of understandings between Israel and Egypt, and between Egypt and Hamas. A document detailing the understandings was published by Hamas in order to boast its achievements, he said.
"There is no agreement. I am holding the paper in my hands," Barak told Israel Radio. Quiet will be met by quiet, he explained.
The IDF believes that contrary to the triumphalist public stance of Hamas, the Gaza regime is privately shocked by the level of damage it sustained.
Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, speaking in Cairo after the truce was announced by the Egyptians, said: "If Israel complies, we are compliant. If it does not comply, our hands are on the trigger."
If Israel needs to, it would send troops into the Gaza Strip, Barak told Israel Radio, but added, "The problem is not occupying Gaza, it's leaving."
"I do not miss Israeli control over Gaza. It is no way a simple thing, and I don't miss it," he said.
In the hours following the quiet in the South overnight Wednesday, the IDF arrested 55 terror suspects across the West Bank, following a wave of violent demonstrations in recent days, the army said.
The arrests included alleged organizers of riots from Hamas, Fatah, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, as well as members of parliament suspected of being involved in the violence.
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Hopefully peace will prevail.
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I wonder what those kids will be when grown up, perfect example of bad parenting.
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