Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak has said that it was "still too soon" to talk of a Gaza truce deal with the Islamist Hamas movement. Israel has said it is willing to give the truce a chance but has stressed it is also readying its troops for a possible ground offensive aimed at ousting Hamas should the agreement fail. Egyptian mediators announced earlier that Israel and Hamas had agreed to a truce in and around the Gaza Strip that would come Hamas says captured Israeli soldier not part of any truce deal ...
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Senior Hamas official Khalil al-Hayya said the ceasefire would last six months. The truce aims at halting rocket and mortar attacks on Israel from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. In return Israel is to stop raids in the territory.
(Deutsche Welle)
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