Atlanta, GA 6/17/2008 10:55:30 PM
News / World

Hamas, Israel Reach Cease-Fire Deal

 

Hamas rulers in Gaza reached a cease-fire agreement with Israel Tuesday that should bring about a “mutual and simultaneous calm” to both sides and end months of violence in Palestine.

 

While the peace agreement is said to go into effect on Thursday at 6 am, violence erupted Monday after Israeli aircraft attacked three targets in the southern Gaza Strip. Five people were killed during the airstrikes.

 

Hamas leaders said the violence would not undermine the truce, but admitted that peace in the area was fragile. Tuesday’s airstrikes were seen as the ‘storm before the calm.’

 

The first phase of the Egyptian-mediated peace accord calls for three days of peace in Gaza. If Hamas stops its daily launching of rockets into Israel, then Israel says it will open border crossings to allow humanitarian efforts into the region.

 

A final phase of the truce would see Gaza’s border crossing with Egypt reopened. That route, which is the main passage for Gaza’s 1.4 million people to leave the area, has been closed since Hamas seized Gaza in June 2007.

 

The deal could possibly extend to the West Bank.

 

 

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