2011年4月2日星期六

Strike kills Gaza fighters, promoting the Hamas warning - New York Times

But the area remained quiet on Saturday, and Hamas, the Islamic Group, the Gaza, controlled the loading of a new round of hostilities seemed cautious.

The Israeli strike came a week after their commitment to an unofficial truce with Israel confirmed the armed Palestinian groups in Gaza early Saturday morning. The agreement ended 10 days of heavy rocket and mortar fire from the Gaza Strip against southern of Israel, repeated Israeli air strikes in Gaza and fears of an escalation into all-out confrontation.

Only an armed group, the popular resistance committees, a small faction loyal to Hamas, Saturday announced it was withdrawing from a cease-fire. "We are free from the decision of the escalation not with Israel," said Abu Mujahed, a spokesman for the group. "Our response will be on the same level of crime."

The Israeli army said that three militant members were planning Israelis on the Egyptian Sinai kidnap Passover holiday in Israel and in the resorts of a Hamas terrorist squad.

The military wing of Hamas confirmed that three Hamas were warriors but denied the action. Citing the Israeli reference to Sinai, it said "We operate only within the limits of historical Palestine." It added that the dead for the production and development of weapons was responsible.

Ismail Haniya, the head of Government of Hamas in the Palestinian coastal enclave, attended the funerals on Saturday with representatives of other Palestinian factions. Fawzi Barhoum, a spokesman for Hamas, described the airstrike on a car with the militant as "a crime and a systematic continuation of the murder, crime and State terrorism."

He added "shoulders"The Israeli Government,". the responsibility for the consequences"

Last weekend, Hamas, met with the groups of Gaza and convinced them the unofficial truce with Israel again to complete take. Since then the Israeli army killed three fighters from the Islamic Jihad movement in two air raids. Israel said that the fighters for firing missiles at Israel were responsible. Israel fought a three-week offensive against Hamas in Gaza in response to years of rocket attacks in 2008-9.

Fares Akram reports from the Gaza Strip and Isabel Kershner of Jerusalem.


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