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CEASE FIRE IN GAZA?
Finally, a break in the air, ground & missle attacks - against Gaza's people.
According to Israelis, "It is 'Fragile'." But for how long?
One week? - We hope this is enough time for everything to be worked out to everyone's satisfaction - (Please, Allah - give the success to the people in this region, ameen.)
One Israeli security chief told Cabinet ministers the military operation "is not over" and the next few days would be critical to determining whether it would be relaunched.
The headlines say, "Israeli militants have comenced a cease-fire against the people of Gaza."
Medics there saw over 1,000+ people die - thousands more injured and in need of emergency medical treatment and supplies.
The streets of Gaza were literally turned into battlegrounds with corpses, body parts and blood everwhere.
Israel declared its own cease-fire on Sunday - 12 hours before Palestinian military declared their cease-fire.
Hamas' Syrian-based deputy leader, speaking for the Palestine, said on Syrian television the cease-fire will give Israel time to withdraw and open all the border crossings to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza.
Reports say, "No one was injured by more than a dozen militant rockets that struck southern Israel ahead of the announcement."
"We the Palestinian resistance factions declare a cease-fire from our side in Gaza and we confirm our stance - the enemy's troops must withdraw from Gaza within a week," Abou Marzouk said.
Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev would not say what level of violence would provoke Israel to call off the cease-fire.
"Israel's decision allows it to respond and renew fire at our enemies, the different terror organizations in the Gaza Strip, as long as they continue attacking," Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said at the start of the weekly Cabinet session.
"This morning some of them continued their fire, provoking what we had warned of," Olmert said. "This cease-fire is fragile and we must examine it minute by minute, hour by hour."
In Gaza, people loaded vans and donkey carts with mattresses and began venturing back to their homes to see what was left standing after the punishing air and ground assault the tiny seaside territory endured.
Bulldozers began shoving aside rubble in Gaza City, the territory's biggest population center, to clear a path for cars while medical workers sifting through mounds of concrete said they discovered 75 bodies. discovered dozens of bodies in the debris.
