Netanyahu: Hamas Violating Its Own Cease-Fire

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Sunday, June 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty, Pool)
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said that Hamas is violating the cease-fire it called for on Sunday morning.

“Hamas doesn’t even accept it’s own cease-fire. It’s continuing to fire at us as we speak,” he said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “Hamas is simply continuing all its operations, and Israel will not let this terror operation decide when it’s convenient for them and not convenient for them to attack our people.”

Hamas agreed to a truce Sunday morning soon after it rejected a similar agreement.

An aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on CNN that Abbas is going to send a delegation to Cairo, Egypt to work on a longer-term deal.

Netanyahu told CNN that working through Egypt would be the only way the two sides could work out an agreement.

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  1. Avatar for pine pine says:

    And what was the counter argument from Hamas ? On CNN ?

  2. B.B. The Butcher is bathed in the blood of innocents, but demands more and more blood to satisfy his lust for death and destruction.

  3. FYI “Continuing all its operations” = “Some of them are still breathing!!!”

  4. Why do we only hear from Netanyahu and the Israeli view? Where are the Palestinians? Why aren’t they on just as frequently as this liar?

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