Israel Cease Fire Against GAZA - For One Week

Finally, there is a break in the ongoing air, ground and missle attacks against Gaza's people. But according to Israelis, it is "fragile" and for how long?
One week? - W hope that is enough time for everything to be worked out to everyone's satisfaction - (Please, Allah - give the success to the people in this region, ameen.)

 

An Israeli security chief told Cabinet ministers the military operation "is not over" and that the next few days would be critical to determining whether it would be relaunched.

The Israeli militants have comenced a cease-fire against the people of Gaza . . .

and the Gaza military leaders have agreed today (Sunday) to a weeklong cease-fire. This comes after 3 horrible weeks of violence and destruction against the Palestinians.

 Medics there have seen more than 1,000 people die and thousands more injured and in need of emergency medical treatment and supplies. The streest of Gaza were turned literally into battlegrounds with corpses, body parts and blood everwhere

Israel declared its own cease-fire on Sunda, just 12 hours before Palestinian military declared their cease-fire.

Hamas' Syrian-based deputy leader, speaking for the Palestine, said on Syrian television that the cease-fire will give Israel time to withdraw and open all the border crossings to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza.

Reports say no one was injured by more than a dozen militant rockets that struck southern Israel ahead of the announcement from deputy Hamas leader Moussa Abu Marzouk on Syrian television.

"We the Palestinian resistance factions declare a cease-fire from our side in Gaza and we confirm our stance that the enemy's troops must withdraw from Gaza within a week," Abou Marzouk said.

Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev would not say what level of violence would provoke Israel to call off the cease-fire.

"Israel's decision allows it to respond and renew fire at our enemies, the different terror organizations in the Gaza Strip, as long as they continue attacking," Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said at the start of the weekly Cabinet session.

"This morning some of them continued their fire, provoking what we had warned of," Olmert said. "This cease-fire is fragile and we must examine it minute by minute, hour by hour."

In Gaza, people loaded vans and donkey carts with mattresses and began venturing back to their homes to see what was left standing after the punishing air and ground assault the tiny seaside territory endured. Bulldozers began shoving aside rubble in Gaza City, the territory's biggest population center, to clear a path for cars while medical workers sifting through mounds of concrete said they discovered 75 bodies. discovered dozens of bodies in the debris.