Posted on 08/06/2014 2:46:42 PM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
Hamas deputy leader Moussa Abu Marzouk said on Wednesday there has been no agreement to extend a 72-hour ceasefire with Israel that is set to expire on Friday, according to AFP.
"There is no agreement to extend the ceasefire," wrote Abu Marzouk on Twitter. He is part of a Palestinian Authority delegation holding indirect talks with Israel in Cairo, the report noted.
Israel indicated on Wednesday it was prepared to extend the ceasefire as Egyptian mediators pushed for a durable truce, but Hamas was quick to reject that notion, with a spokesman saying that the sides would "resume fighting immediately at the end of the 72-hour ceasefire, at 8:00 am Friday."
Another Hamas official, Ismail Radwan, said that "there is no extension of the truce."
There will be no extension of the ceasefire, he declared, because Hamas “to this moment has not yet received Israel's response to its demands.”
A Palestinian Arab official told AFP members of the delegation had not been notified of Israel's acceptance to prolong the ceasefire.
But Palestinian members of the delegation had earlier on Wednesday described the negotiations as "serious and detailed."
On Wednesday night, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu stressed in an international press conference that the IDF stands at the ready in the event the current ceasefire is violated, however.
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“There is no agreement to extend the ceasefire”
Holding my breath waiting for UN condemnation of their aggression...
They must have restocked and reloaded the houses, hospitals, nurseries, schools, daycares, mosques, etc. Women and children in place, preferably invalids, let the wailing begin.
They need to show Gaza some win from the war and Egypt and the rest of the Arab world except Qatar refuse to give them anything to take home to Gaza.
All Hamas can take home to Gaza is an end to the cease fire and a re start of the war with Israel.
After 72 hours the residents of Gaza will have had plenty of time to mull over just how much they lost so far because of Hamas and how nice it is to not be bombed into poverty and misery because of Israeli counter attacks to Hamas missile launches
Sucks to be Hamas, but then who sucks more than Hamas? Its a very short list.
sounds like it
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