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**ssupermegatone** · 03-11-2012, 09:41 AM

The Israeli military said Qaisi "was among the leaders who planned, funded and directed" a deadly cross-border attack into southern Israel from Egypt's Sinai peninsula last August that killed eight people.

The PRC militants killed on Friday night were also "planning a combined terror attack that was to take place via Sinai in the coming days," the military said.

Hamas, which rules Gaza, has maintained a tacit truce with Israel, but other Palestinian groups regularly fire rockets and mortars across the border, often sparking retaliatory air strikes.

The relatively small PRC is one of the most active.

"We are not committed to the truce; we will respond very strongly to this (Israeli) crime," Abu Ataya, a spokesman for the PRC's military wing, the Al-Nasser Salaheddin Brigades, told AFP.

Hamas also branded the killings a crime but later said it had renewed contact with Egypt in a bid to negotiate an end to the violence.

"We really want to put an end to the (Israeli) aggression in the Gaza Strip and the contacts that we have made with Egypt are to that end," Hamas spokesman Taher al-Nounou told AFP.

Hamas was prepared to help broker a ceasefire, "not a surrender", but it would have to be applied on both sides simultaneously, he added.

President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmud Abbas also discussed renewing the ceasefire in talks with Hamas's exiled leader Khaled Mechaal and the leader of Islamic Jihad Ramadan Abdallah Challah, the Palestinian press agency Wafa reported.

The PRC and Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed offshoot of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah movement, said they fired rockets into Israel on Friday.

The Palestinian Authority condemned Israel's retaliation, saying it would "escalate the circle of violence in the region."

The United States and European Union expressed similar concerns. "We call on both sides to make every effort to restore calm," said US State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland echoing an EU statement.

The Arab League accused Israel of carrying out a "massacre" and called for a tough stance from the international community against the Jewish state.

03-11-2012, 09:41 AM	#2
ssupermegatone Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 514 Senior Member	The Israeli military said Qaisi "was among the leaders who planned, funded and directed" a deadly cross-border attack into southern Israel from Egypt's Sinai peninsula last August that killed eight people. The PRC militants killed on Friday night were also "planning a combined terror attack that was to take place via Sinai in the coming days," the military said. Hamas, which rules Gaza, has maintained a tacit truce with Israel, but other Palestinian groups regularly fire rockets and mortars across the border, often sparking retaliatory air strikes. The relatively small PRC is one of the most active. "We are not committed to the truce; we will respond very strongly to this (Israeli) crime," Abu Ataya, a spokesman for the PRC's military wing, the Al-Nasser Salaheddin Brigades, told AFP. Hamas also branded the killings a crime but later said it had renewed contact with Egypt in a bid to negotiate an end to the violence. "We really want to put an end to the (Israeli) aggression in the Gaza Strip and the contacts that we have made with Egypt are to that end," Hamas spokesman Taher al-Nounou told AFP. Hamas was prepared to help broker a ceasefire, "not a surrender", but it would have to be applied on both sides simultaneously, he added. President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmud Abbas also discussed renewing the ceasefire in talks with Hamas's exiled leader Khaled Mechaal and the leader of Islamic Jihad Ramadan Abdallah Challah, the Palestinian press agency Wafa reported. The PRC and Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed offshoot of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah movement, said they fired rockets into Israel on Friday. The Palestinian Authority condemned Israel's retaliation, saying it would "escalate the circle of violence in the region." The United States and European Union expressed similar concerns. "We call on both sides to make every effort to restore calm," said US State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland echoing an EU statement. The Arab League accused Israel of carrying out a "massacre" and called for a tough stance from the international community against the Jewish state.
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