Author Topic: Israel rejects ceasefire proposal from Palestinians (Read 109 times)

Don Rizzle · « **on:** November 24, 2006, 10:25:12 AM »

Israel rejects ceasefire proposal
Israel has dismissed an offer by Palestinian militant groups to stop firing rockets into Israel, if Israel ends attacks on Palestinians.
An Israeli government spokeswoman, Miri Eisen, said the militants had offered only a partial ceasefire.

She said the offer of an end to firing rockets from Gaza showed a lack of real commitment to peace.

The conditional Palestinian offer was made after a meeting on Thursday of all armed factions, including Hamas.

The militant group Hamas leads the Palestinian Authority.

Israel has in the past consistently rejected ceasefire offers by Palestinian militants, saying it refuses to do deals of any kind with what it describes as terrorist organisations.

Rocket fire

Palestinian Qassam rockets are fired into Israel on a daily basis. They have killed two Israelis in the past 10 days.

Israel has launched frequent ground offensives into Gaza Strip to try to stop the militants who launch the rockets. It has also shelled targets in Gaza heavily.

Israel evacuated its settlements and military bases in Gaza last year, but the military renewed ground operations after militants captured an Israeli soldier in a border raid in June.

Since June, Israeli troops have killed more than 400 Palestinians in Gaza, roughly half of them civilians. Three Israeli soldiers have died in operations and two civilians were killed by rocket fire.

Continuing offensive

On Thursday, at least five Palestinians were killed by Israeli military action in the Gaza Strip as troops pressed on with operations against armed groups.

Two militants were killed in an air strike in Beit Lahiya and two others died in armed clashes with troops. Another man was also shot dead.

The deaths came as a 57-year-old female suicide bomber attacked Israeli troops in Jabaliya. Three Israeli troops were slightly wounded in the blast.

The Israeli army says that a group of soldiers became suspicious of an approaching woman.

They threw a stun grenade at her but she managed to detonate explosives that she was carrying.

Governing Palestinian party Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack by the bomber and named her as Fatma Najar, a mother and grandmother.

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/middle_east/6179588.stm

Published: 2006/11/24 11:55:23 GMT

virtuoso · « **Reply #1 on:** November 24, 2006, 10:33:10 AM »

Lol well you can understand the Israelis viewpoint they want quite rightly the palestinians to stop shooting back every time they massacre a group of palestinians, riddle some unarmed palestinian women with bullets, seems a very perfectly reasonable stance by the israelis.

I TO DA GEEZY · « **Reply #2 on:** November 24, 2006, 12:38:07 PM »

God damn Israelis....

Don Rizzle · « **Reply #3 on:** November 24, 2006, 01:42:35 PM »

Quote from: I TO DA GEEZY on November 24, 2006, 12:38:07 PM

God damn Israelis....

exactly you like to claim the victim, but when it comes down to it even before the creation of israel the jews weren't interested in peace and they still aren't interested now

Smoke Break · « **Reply #4 on:** November 24, 2006, 02:26:51 PM »

LOL like Hamas wants peace with Israel, they just want time to get some proper tactics/plans, weapons and support until they are strong enough to do some real damage to Israel, don't be ignorant. Everyone roots for the underdog, which is cool I like seeing that, but I love how that's the critisicm I hear all the time about the jews, oh they just want to be perceived as the victim and all that, but what are the terrorists doing now? Garnering sympathy from the world, and complaining how they are the weaker of the two, but they keep the shit going, Israel has to retaliate, or we see what happened in Lebanon go on again, they start with how Israel lost the war and is weak and we have to destroy them. Does anybody really think that if any of these little shit groups had Israels power they would show the slightest sympathy or anything less than destruction? They're playing the mindgames too dont forget that.

virtuoso · « **Reply #5 on:** November 24, 2006, 03:13:20 PM »

Former CIA analysts have discussed this in depth Israel created Hamas as a means of countering weaking and ultimately destroying the PLO. Remember the PLO were willing to recognise Israel? now even Hamas wants a ceasefire and Israel says no, you can't gloss this over.

Smoke Break · « **Reply #6 on:** November 24, 2006, 03:23:37 PM »

well that was a shitty move then lol

AndrE16686 · « **Reply #7 on:** November 24, 2006, 05:50:52 PM »

Just take a look at a map of the west bank (one that shows Israeli and Palestinian areas) and you will see that Israel has no intention of letting the West Bank Palestinians have a nation state of their own.

The West Bank is apart of Israel.