Isreal, Hamas Announce Gaza Ceasefire.

[wednesday]

yes must have been very hard to have found this one .... I mean how many hours apart where both announcements made??...youd make a great journalist....lol

 

[Meirionnydd]

what pisses me off is that we keep hearing about the civilian casualties in palestine...what about the civilian casualties in israel?.......at least israel is trying to hit military targets where hamas's rockets are indescriminate

Civilian casualties in Gaza you mean.

Depending on your geographical perspective, you could be talking about either, Gaza, the West Bank, Isreal proper, or all of the above.

And maybe because there haven't been any civilian deaths in Isreal since the end of December. And there have been two civilian deaths in Isreal compared to...

Well, 1,300 in Gaza.

See what I mean?

 

[Meirionnydd]

yes must have been very hard to have found this one .... I mean how many hours apart where both announcements made??...youd make a great journalist....lol

I think it was at least a day apart.

But! I have found an article on the ABC (the good one) reporting on the Isreali ceasefire.

Posted Sun Jan 18, 2009 11:21am AEDT


The Israeli military has begun observing a unilateral ceasefire in the Gaza Strip after a 22-day offensive against the Hamas rulers of the Palestinian territory.


"Starting at 2:00am (11:00am AEDT) we are holding our fire," an Israeli army spokesman said.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert earlier said Israel would call a halt to an offensive that has killed more than 1,200 Palestinians, although he ordered troops to remain in the enclave and return fire if they came under attack.


As the hour passed, residents in the city of Gaza could hear the long-familiar drone of Israeli unmanned reconnaissance aircraft overhead, but no sound of gunfire.


However, Hamas has said it will not recognise Israel's unilateral move and Mr Olmert has warned that fighting could resume if the guerrillas fire more rockets or attack Israeli soldiers.


Hamas has vowed to fight on until Israel removes its troops from Gaza and eases a trade blockade.
An Israeli military spokesman said shortly before the cessation was to begin that Israel "will respond to any attack against Israeli civilians or soldiers".
Aid boost

Israel has also said it is prepared to sharply increase the flow of food and medicine to Gaza if the ceasefire holds, but it has ruled out fully lifting a blockade until a captured Israeli soldier is freed.
Lifting the blockade was one of Hamas's chief demands for entering into a ceasefire.


"If the quiet holds, there will not be any problem [in] dramatically increasing aid like food and medicine," said Mr Olmert's spokesman, Mark Regev.


"If this quiet holds, we will work with the international community for reconstruction.
"But you can't have anything close to full normalisation of the crossings as long as Gilad Shalit remains a hostage," Mr Regev said.



The soldier was captured in a cross-border raid in 2006.

Israeli ceasefire begins in Gaza - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

 

[Peter Parka]

Who was it who were increasing their attacks on innocent civillians while this ceasefire was being wrangled out? Hmmm :humm: