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Τετάρτη 27 Αυγούστου 2014

Cease-Fire Extended, but Not on Hamas’s Terms

  

JERUSALEM — After 50 days of fighting that took 
some 2,200 lives, leveled large areas of the Gaza Strip and 
paralyzed Israel’s south for the summer, Israeli and Palestinian 
leaders reached an open-ended cease-fire agreement on Tuesday 
that promised only limited change to conditions in Gaza 
and left unresolved the broader issues underpinning the conflict....
Hamas, the militant Islamist faction that dominates Gaza, declared victory even though it had abandoned most of its demands, ultimately accepting an Egyptian-brokered deal that differs little from one proffered on the battle’s seventh day. In effect, the deal put both sides back where they were at the end of eight days of fighting in 2012, with terms that called for easing but not lifting Israeli restrictions on travel, trade and fishing in Gaza. ...[...] nytimes.com

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