re: #615 akak

Looks like Hamas is backing out of the cease fire…
Hamas leader rejects Israeli conditions for truce

The exiled leader of the militant Palestinian Hamas group said Wednesday that Israel’s conditions for a long-term truce with Hamas were “unacceptable.”

Khaled Mashaal said Hamas will not accept that Israel open the border crossings with the Gaza Strip only after Hamas releases an Israeli soldier captured by Gaza militants in June 2006.

“We were recently informed of (Israel’s) conditions for calm … We reject these Israeli conditions. We will not accept them,” Mashaal said.