The Bulletin · Bend, OR · 27 July 2014
CP-2014-060
Israel extends cease-fire in Gaza, but not Hamas
By Jodi Rudoren and Michael R. Gordon / New York Times News Service
Transcribed from the clipping
JERUSALEM — Under intense diplomatic pressure, Israeli leaders decided late Saturday to extend a halt to hostilities in the Gaza Strip through midnight today, but said their troops would maintain defensive positions and continue to ferret out tunnels from Gaza into Israeli territory.
Hamas, the militant Palestinian faction that dominates Gaza, rejected the extension of the temporary cease-fire requested by the United Nations, after renewing rocket fire on Israel on Saturday evening.
“Any humanitarian cease-fire that doesn’t secure the withdrawal of occupation soldiers from inside Gaza’s borders, allow citizens back into homes, and secure the evacuation of the injured is unacceptable,” Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman, said in a brief statement. It remains unclear how things will unfold.
Twice before in the bloody 19-day battle, Israel embraced cease-fire initiatives only to resume its assault within hours when Hamas did not follow suit. But with the Palestinian death toll topping 1,100 after 147 bodies were recovered from the rubble during Saturday’s lull — and with 42 Israeli soldiers killed in combat — calls for calm have only grown more urgent.
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Date confirmed on the page (folio).
Context added by this archive
Casualty figures as printed: Palestinian death toll 'topping 1,100 after 147 bodies were recovered from the rubble during Saturday's lull', 42 Israeli soldiers killed in combat. The paper's own nouns: 'the militant Palestinian faction', 'the bloody 19-day battle', 'Israel embraced cease-fire initiatives only to resume its assault'.
The word 'occupation' reaches the page in Abu Zuhri's quote and is left to stand.
Cite this clipping
"Israel extends cease-fire in Gaza, but not Hamas," The Bulletin, 27 July 2014, p. A7. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2014-060. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2014-060
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