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Report: Hamas agrees to year-long Gaza truce from Thursday
By Haaretz Service
Tags: Gaza, Israel News 

Hamas has accepted an Egyptian proposal for a year-long truce with Israel in Gaza starting on Thursday, Al-Arabiya TV Sunday quoted sources in the Islamist militant group as saying.

A Hamas delegation is expected to arrive in Cairo on Monday in order to give the group's final answer to the initiative.

The official spokesman for Egypt's foreign ministry, Hossam Zaki, refused to confirm or deny the report on the Dubai-based Arabic satellite television station.
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According to the report, Hamas has agreed to the deployment along Gaza's border crossings of forces under the control of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who heads the rival Fatah movement.

The deal stipulates that the PA forces will coordinate their activities with Hamas.

Hamas' acceptance of the deal apparently led Abbas to cancel a trip to the Czech Republic and travel to Cairo instead.

Al-Arabiya reported that while in Egypt, Abbas discussed mechanisms that would enable the Gaza-Egypt border crossing at Rafah to be opened on Thursday, in parallel with an announcement by Hamas of the year-long truce in Gaza.

Israel, according to the report, has agreed not to interfere in the running of the Egypt-Gaza border crossing.

Meanwhile, Palestinian militants fired at least four Qassam rockets and four mortar shells from the Gaza Strip into the western Negev on Sunday, with one rocket hitting between two kindergartens.


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      2.   Israel Should Reject Truce 00:43  |  Khaled 01/01/09
      3.   Now Hamas agrees to the ceasefire and firing rockets 00:59  |  Ben 01/01/09
      4.   Truce 00:03  |  Angel 01/01/09
      5.   Again another agreement? 00:16  |  Elina 01/01/09
      6.   When the truce is broken, and it will be, by Hamas 00:21  |  *BEN JABO 01/01/09
      7.   Is that why today they shot ten projectiles 00:40  |  Yaakov Hillel 01/01/09
      8.   comical 00:33  |  patriot 01/01/09
      9.   Gaza truce: 00:52  |  Sharon 01/01/09
      10.   But *BEN JABO the last truce was broken by IDF 00:03  |  Ben Dover 01/01/09
      11.   ben,the rocket attacks never stopped,as witnessed by millions of 00:28  |  terrornator 01/01/09
      12.   What Truce 00:59  |  Carole 01/01/09
      13.   #10 Ben Dover, grab your ankles 00:03  |  *BEN JABO 01/01/09
      14.   Ben Dover what about the bombing of the IDF killing one last week 00:27  |  Leon 01/01/09
      15.   agree to more war that is what they did 00:43  |  don muntean 01/01/09
      16.   In your dreams the only ceasefire you will get 00:00  |  lydia 01/01/09
      17.   Leon old chap 00:55  |  Ben Dover 01/01/09
      18.   Leon old chap 00:40  |  Ben Dover 01/01/09
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