Palestinians again show bad faith with immediate truce violations

AP/NY Times:

Israeli troops withdrew from the Gaza Strip as an unexpected truce took hold Sunday, but two major Palestinian militant groups, saying they had no intention of stopping their attacks, fired volleys of homemade rockets into Israel.

The rocket attacks by Hamas and Islamic Jihad tempered hopes for a lasting cease-fire, which was meant to end five months of deadly clashes. The rockets landed in open fields and caused no injuries.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas ordered his security chiefs to send their forces to the Gaza border area to prevent further rocket attacks, according to Palestinian security officials.

''The instructions are clear. Anyone violating the national agreement will be considered to be breaking the law,'' said Lt. Gen. Abdel Razek Almajaydeh.

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If Hamas which controls the government can't abide by the truce that its representatives agreed to, then an agreement with the Palestinians is truly of no value. Islamic Jihad is made up of Iranian proxy warriors and they have never honored any truce for any length of time and in this case not even for a few minutes. The Israeli are evidently going to give Abbas some time to take care of the miscreants before moving back into Gaza.

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