Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Hamas Offers To Study Fresh Gaza Truce With Israel


From Yahoo News/Reuters:

GAZA (Reuters) – Hamas would consider renewing a lapsed truce with Israel in the Gaza Strip, but wants guarantees the Jewish state will halt incursions and keep border crossings open for supplies of aid and fuel, a spokesman said on Tuesday.

Gaza's Islamist leaders had initially ruled out extending the six-month-old truce, which they declared dead last Friday. Tensions rose as Palestinians stepped up cross-border rocket fire, but since late Sunday have scaled back the salvoes.

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