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Hamas: We're prepared to end cease-fire and confront Israel
By Avi Issacharoff and Amos Harel
Tags: IDF, Gaza Strip, Hamas 

Hamas' military wing announced Tuesday it was "prepared for a confrontation with Israel" and for the end of the cease-fire with Israel. But political sources said the cease-fire was expected to go on.

Hamas' Iz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades threatened to "turn the cease-fire tables on the heads of the Zionists," they said in a statement. Abu Obeida, the alias of a spokesman for the military wing, threatened that Hamas would "retaliate fiercely" should Israel resume its targeted-killings policy, as some defense officials have said were advisable after the cease-fire.

By contrast, Mahmoud Al-Zahar, a Hamas leader in Gaza, said that since the cease-fire was not a unilateral move, both sides should honor their part.
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Meanwhile, in what could be seen as an indication of relative calm in the area, the Gaza regional division of the Israel Defense Forces received a new commander Tuesday in a military ceremony near the border with the Strip.

The ceremony in which Brig.-Gen. Eyal Eisenberg replaced Moshe Tamir was supposed to take place last week, but was postponed because of Palestinian rocket fire. Tamir was replaced as commander of the regional division deployed around Gaza after having served for two years and three months.

Militants fired rockets from the Strip into Israel Tuesday as well, but in a lower frequency than last week, when hostilities threatened to quash the cease-fire, which is due to expire next month. The Popular Resistance Committees and the Popular Front assumed responsibility for the rocket fire.

Three Qassam rockets exploded Tuesday in an open field in the northern Negev. Militants later fired mortar rounds at an IDF force operating near the fence on the Palestinian side of the border. No casualties or damage to property were reported in either incident.

The IDF Spokesman said the soldiers were searching for explosive devices which militants had placed to detonate near IDF patrols.

Military sources said they believed that Hamas was not directly behind the rocket fire and hostilities, but rather one or some of the smaller Palestinian militant movements. The officers think Hamas is pressuring smaller Palestinian factions in an attempt to preserve the cease-fire.

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      1.   I sure hope that they are so stupid. 02:15  |  Gee 19/11/08
      2.   Time to deal with Hamas from the roots up 02:21  |  Angel 19/11/08
      3.   Angel in NYC? a big tough guy like you should come 02:39  |  show them how 19/11/08
      4.   Re: #3 02:50  |  Angel 19/11/08
      5.   What is Wrong with Your Government? 03:19  |  Tom 19/11/08
      6.   Before ceasefire- rockets...After ceasefire-more rockets 03:39  |  Jon 19/11/08
      7.   Tom I dont know where to start 04:19  |  Dan 19/11/08
      8.   No Gee, that would be wholesale slaughter of civilians... 04:24  |  BBSNews 19/11/08
      9.   HAMAS OFFER`S IT`S BRETHEREN CERTAIN DEATH 04:35  |  dp 19/11/08
      10.   Put The Hamas Hounds Out Of Their Misery 06:33  |  Bill Foonman 19/11/08
      11.   HAMAS or their women and children ?? 06:51  |  PETER SM 19/11/08
      12.   Is this a joke? 06:51  |  ScotGuy 19/11/08
      13.   BBS.What have Arabs tried to do?Why were you quiet 07:39  |  PETER SM 19/11/08
      14.   Hamas:"prepared to end truce and fightIsrael" 08:18  |  DT 19/11/08
      15.   To BBSNews # 13 - Where were these Gazans.... 08:19  |  Natasha 19/11/08
      16.   Re: Tom # 5 08:22  |  Angel 19/11/08
      17.   # 13 - PETER SM Think again about who is targetting civilians 08:40  |  Natallie Durson 19/11/08
      18.   Hey Angel..!! 09:03  |  Kei-di 19/11/08
      19.   #8 bbs TELLS a DUMB joke, REPEATS illegal LIE 09:06  |  CK Tan 19/11/08
      20.   Hamas`s threats. 10:00  |  David Nigel Braham 19/11/08
      21.   To Tom of Park City 11:00  |  Israeli grandma 19/11/08
      22.   To Hamas: be kind enough to wait until real PM & MD are appointed 11:02  |  Moshe 19/11/08
      23.   Israel`s responding `in kind` delivery of rockets not supplies 11:02  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 19/11/08
      24.   To #17, Durson the antisemite 12:22  |  Wolf 19/11/08
      25.   The only way forward is through diplomacy. 12:42  |  Stephen. 19/11/08
      26.   Re: No. 18 12:43  |  Angel 19/11/08
      27.   Re: Natallie Durson #17 12:50  |  Angel 19/11/08
      28.   Tom (#5) Thinks he knows what the Germans did to the Jews 13:04  |  Gil 19/11/08
      29.   Tom (#5) Thinks he knows what the Germans did to the Jews 13:05  |  Gil 19/11/08
      30.   #5 tom believes any crap he reads 13:12  |  victor hardman 19/11/08
      31.   Kei-di, the puffy ignoramous 13:14  |  Khadji-Baba 19/11/08
      32.   until the missiles gets to ramat aviv no israeli response 13:27  |  dovdevan 19/11/08
      33.   BBSNews # 8 What`s Illegal About An Occupation? 14:15  |  Jeff Northridge 19/11/08
      34.   #4 Angel in NYC is correct. 15:07  |  John Allen 19/11/08
      35.   #17 Natalie. Poor Natalie......... 15:25  |  John Allen 19/11/08
      36.   vic h 15:26  |  peter 19/11/08
      37.   The cease fire was a farce, Hamas just needed time to " refuel" 15:35  |  Benjamina 19/11/08
      38.   #33 Jeff, the "occupatiion" is not only legal, but necessary 15:36  |  Walter 19/11/08
      39.   Tom, please visit Yad Vashem, the Holocaust museum in J`lem 15:43  |  Benjamina 19/11/08
      40.   THIS JUST MEANS THEY AREN`T. 15:56  |  Fortuna Benmayor 19/11/08
      41.   #38 16:39  |  Jim 19/11/08
      42.   BBSNews #8 your concern is heartfelt 16:52  |  Gee 19/11/08
      43.   What ceasefire? It`s an illusion 17:04  |  * BEN JABO 19/11/08
      44.   #8 BSnews - The rockets may be inferior 17:07  |  * BEN JABO 19/11/08
      45.   Never Recognize hamas 17:29  |  Gary 19/11/08
      46.   Reality Check 17:43  |  Nick 19/11/08
      47.   Who is the thief? 18:54  |  arik 19/11/08
      48.   Inaccurate qassams 19:05  |  John 19/11/08
      49.   #5 Tom 19:17  |  Angus 19/11/08
      50.   #8 Gee is right , BSNews is just 19:42  |  TOMY 19/11/08
      51.   NATALIE The scores of rockets falling on Sderot are intended for? 21:20  |  PETER SM 19/11/08
      52.   #5 Tom seems you compare genocide with Gaza 22:43  |  Big Sur 19/11/08
      53.   BBS NEWS and his little rocket (do not play with it BBS) 22:45  |  Big Sur 19/11/08
      54.   Hey Natalie!Gaza Rocket Strikes Israeli Shopping Center, at Least 22:53  |  Big Sur 19/11/08
      55.   #33 Jeff Northridge repeats his nonsense 00:05  |  Johnboy 20/11/08
      56.   #5 What is Wrong with Your Government? 00:52  |  Noach 20/11/08
      57.   NATALIE(4th Try!) Rockets raining on Sderot are intended for ?? 01:11  |  PETER SM 20/11/08
      58.   Perspective 01:17  |  Gee 20/11/08
      59.   bbs # if the "civillians" voted to put hamas in power,and hamas 04:32  |  terrornator 20/11/08
      60.   nuttie durston #17 "why has israel killed so many more civillians 04:46  |  terrornator 20/11/08
      61.   Why are you here Gee and not the Congo? 04:59  |  BBSNews 20/11/08
      62.   #2 Angel; Tough Talk but...........so far, far away 05:55  |  Gray 20/11/08
      63.   #2 Angel; Tough Talk but...........so far, far away 07:17  |  Gray 20/11/08
      64.   #2 Angel; Tough Talk but...........so far, far away 07:17  |  Gray 20/11/08
      65.   confront this! 07:38  |  the Zohan 20/11/08
      66.   GRAY did you hear? 08:31  |  PETER SM 20/11/08
      67.   "End"? It never started (2nd try) 10:49  |  David Teich 20/11/08
      68.   61: BBS can`t help but continue to lie 11:11  |  David Teich 20/11/08
      69.   Gray - Since you brought the subject 18:13  |  * BEN JABO 23/11/08
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