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...Sunday, just hours after the Israeli statement, Hamas announced that it too was declaring a weeklong cease-fire while also demanding that Israeli troops withdraw from Gaza within the week...
...Both sides traded shots after their separate announcements, but Gaza residents say the cease-fire seems to be gaining strength, and Palestinians have emerged from their refuges to assess the damage of Israel's three-week-long air and land assault against Hamas in Gaza...
...Israel was facing rising international outrage over its Gaza offensive, in which, according to Palestinian health workers, nearly one-third of those killed were women and children. In trying to root out Hamas fighters, Israel subjected the Gaza Strip, which teems with more than 1.5 million Palestinians, to scorching fire from aircraft, naval gunships, artillery, tanks and troops backed by helicopter gunships...
...cease-fire without Hamas and Israel's mutual consent may be the most temporary of Band-Aids. Inevitably, Hamas claimed that despite the devastation its fight with Israel has wreaked on Gaza, the best the Israelis could do was to slow - but not stop - the barrage of rockets arcing out of Gaza. Hamas' Gaza leader Ismail Haniyeh claimed a "popular victory" over Israel. Up until the last minute before Israel declared its cease-fire, Hamas was firing rockets. Five hit the ports of Ashkelon and Ashdod as well as the inland towns of Beersheba and Sderot. And unless Hamas...
...declaring a unilateral cease-fire, Israel can argue that it is not legitimizing Hamas, which it considers to be a gang of terrorists. But even though a few of Hamas' leaders have been killed, along with hundreds of its fighters, Israel cannot pretend that Hamas no longer exists. Even beaten and bloodied, Hamas is still a force to contend with among Palestinians...