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Palestinians Agree Truce, Israel Defiant
CAIRO — Twelve Palestinian factions agreed on Wednesday, April 30, to an Egyptian proposal for a "comprehensive and reciprocal" truce starting in the Gaza Strip first, but Israel signaled a defiant tone even before getting the offer through Cairo.
"All Palestinian factions have agreed to the Egyptian proposal on a truce with Israel," said a statement issued by Egyptian intelligence Chief Omar Suleiman and received by IslamOnline.net.
Suleiman met over the past two days with representatives of 12 factions including the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) and the Popular Struggle Front (PSF).
They have all committed themselves to a six-month "comprehensive, reciprocal and simultaneous truce," implemented in a graduated framework starting in the Gaza Strip and then subsequently moving to the West Bank.
"This proposal is a phase of a broader plan that aims at providing an appropriate atmosphere before lifting the blockade and ending the state of Palestinian division," an unnamed high-level Egyptian official told the MENA state news agency.
He said the initial period of calm would "pave the way to open other files such as a deal to swap prisoners with the Israeli side."
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Suleiman met over the past two days with representatives of 12 factions including the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) and the Popular Struggle Front (PSF).
They have all committed themselves to a six-month "comprehensive, reciprocal and simultaneous truce," implemented in a graduated framework starting in the Gaza Strip and then subsequently moving to the West Bank.
"This proposal is a phase of a broader plan that aims at providing an appropriate atmosphere before lifting the blockade and ending the state of Palestinian division," an unnamed high-level Egyptian official told the MENA state news agency.
He said the initial period of calm would "pave the way to open other files such as a deal to swap prisoners with the Israeli side."
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