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Hamas announces ceasefire after Israel's unilateral declaration

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Hamas announces ceasefire after Israels unilateral declaration
OluÅŸturulma Tarihi: Ocak 18, 2009 09:31

Hamas said on Sunday it would cease fire immediately along with other militant groups in the Gaza Strip and give Israel, which already declared a unilateral truce, a week to pull its troops out of the territory. U.S. President-elect Barack Obama welcomed Israel's ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. (UPDATED)

Mussa Abu Marzuq, the exiled number two of the Islamist Hamas movement which controls Gaza, announced the one-week truce to allow Israeli troops to withdraw, in a speech on Syrian state television.

 

"The Israeli enemy has failed in its bid to impose conditions. We in the Palestinian resistance movements announce a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and demand that enemy forces withdraw in a week and open all the border crossings to permit the entry of humanitarian aid and basic goods," Abu Marzuq was quoted by AFP as saying.

 

"We are ready to accept all efforts, particularly those of the Egyptians, Turks, Syrians and Qataris, to reach an agreement that meets our known demands, namely the lifting once and for all of the blockade and the opening of all the crossing points, including the Rafah crossing" between Gaza and Egypt.

 

Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev said the Jewish state does "not negotiate with Hamas. Hamas is not a partner.

 

"Israel announced a unilateral ceasefire of offensive activities against Hamas. If Hamas does not attack Israel and does not provoke Israel, we will honor the ceasefire," AFP quoted him as saying.

 

Regev declined to say when or if Israel planned to open Gaza border crossings, which it has largely kept closed ever since Hamas seized power in the enclave in June 2007.

 

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said earlier Sunday the Jewish state's unilateral ceasefire in the Gaza Strip was fragile and was being reassessed on minute by minute basis.

 

"The government’s decision allows Israel to respond and renew the fire if our enemy in the Gaza Strip continues its strikes," he was quoted by AFP as saying after Gaza militants fired a handful of rockets into Israel.

 

Israel has said it will not consider a timetable for withdrawing all of its forces from the Gaza Strip until Hamas and other militants cease their fire.

 

TRUCE PUNCTURED

Israeli troops and Hamas fighters traded their first shots on Sunday, puncturing a tenuous truce in Gaza, as dozens of bodies were pulled from the rubble after Israel halted its war on Hamas.Â

 

Palestinian medics took advantage of the halt in Israel’s deadliest offensive on Gaza to rush to areas which had been inaccessible due to furious fighting, pulling at least 95 bodies from the rubble, including those of several children.

 

Israeli troops shot dead an eight-year-old girl in the northern town of Beit Hanun and a 20-year-old man near the southern town of Khan Yunis, the first death's since the truce, medics said.

The Israeli military Sunday carried out an air strike against a rocket launching squad in the northern Gaza Strip in the first such incident following the unilateral truce.

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Earlier Gaza militants fired a handful of rockets into Israel, with at least four of them landing inside the Jewish state without causing any injuries, the army said.

Hamas has said it would not accept the presence of Israeli soldiers in the Gaza Strip and would "continue to resist them". Israeli leaders have said the military would respond strongly if Hamas kept up attacks.

OBAMA WELCOMES CEASEFIRE
Obama welcomes Israel's ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and is committed to helping Israelis and Palestinians work toward peace, a spokesman said on Sunday.

Obama will say more on the situation in Gaza after he is inaugurated on Tuesday, spokeswoman Brooke Anderson said in a statement.

The U.S. president-elect will quickly get down working on the Middle East and hopes a ceasefire between Israel and Gaza militants will endure, a top aide also said.

 

"Let me say that all of us are hopeful that a cessation of violence will hold," David Axelrod, an incoming senior White House adviser, was quoted by AFP as telling CNN ahead of Obama’s inauguration on Tuesday.

 

Asked if Obama would immediately name a special envoy for the Middle East peace process, Axelrod stressed that Obama "intends to engage early and aggressively with diplomacy all over the world."

 

The new president will use "the men and women, the professionals who are in place, who are great, and, where appropriate, special envoys," he said.

 

"I think that the events around the world demand that he act quickly, and I think you’ll see him act quickly."

 

Obama has resisted pressure to speak out on the crisis ahead of his inauguration, insisting there is "only one president at a time" to represent the United States abroad.

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