Israel accepted a Palestinian cease-fire to go in effect Sunday morning, and will stop military operations in Gaza in return for an end to all Palestinian violence, including rocket fire, tunneling, and suicide bombers, the Prime Minister’s Office announced Saturday night. The dramatic announcement followed a telephone conversation between Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas.
According to the Prime Minister’s Office, Abbas phoned Olmert and told him that he had received an agreement from all the different Palestinian factions to the cease fire, and in response “requested that Israel would stop all military operations in the Gaza Strip, and withdraw all its forces from there.”
The statement said that after speaking to his senior ministers and top security officials, Olmert told Abbas that Israel would respond favorably “since Israel was operating in the Gaza Strip in response to the violence.”
Olmert, according to the statement, told Abbas “the end of the violence could bring about the end of Israeli operations, and his hope that this would bring stability to both sides.” According to the statement, the two “agreed to continue the dialogue to bring about an end of violence in the West Bank, and agreed to talk again soon to continue with these steps.”
You must be really retarded to believe what you just typed. Israel never gives palestine the chance to develop thier economy and build thier nation back again. We are muslims Alhamdulilah, can i ask you, are you a jew?
You must be even more retarded to beleive what you have written
Look at recent History...Israel and Palestinians declare a ceasefire after the Israeli pullout from Gaza but then Islamic Jihad leaves the truce and starts firing rockets into Israel....
What you are stating is a long term issue...I am talking about short term
And lastly I am a Muslim, proud to be one and I love Islam
JERUSALEM - Israeli troops withdrew from the Gaza Strip as an unexpected truce took hold Sunday, but two major Palestinian militant groups, saying they had no intention of stopping their attacks, fired volleys of homemade rockets into Israel.
The rocket attacks by Hamas and Islamic Jihad tempered hopes for a lasting cease-fire, which was meant to end five months of deadly clashes. The rockets landed in open fields and caused no injuries.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas ordered his security chiefs to send their forces to the Gaza border area to prevent further rocket attacks, according to Palestinian security officials.
"The instructions are clear. Anyone violating the national agreement will be considered to be breaking the law," said Lt. Gen. Abdel Razek Mejaidie.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert ordered the army to show restraint in the face of the rockets
"Even though there are still violations of the cease-fire by the Palestinian side, I have instructed our defense officials not to respond, to show restraint, and to give this cease-fire a chance to take full effect," he said.
A senior Israeli official said Israel would wait a few hours to see if the attacks were isolated breaches or a full-scale violation of the agreement before deciding whether to respond. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.