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UPDATE: 1/7 5:30 pm
Israel, Hamas and the Palestinian Authority will meet Thursday to negotiate a cease-fire plan, reports the AP.
UNITED NATIONS — Egypt’s U.N. ambassador says representatives of Israel, the Palestinian Authority and Hamas have agreed to meet Thursday for talks in Cairo on the Gaza crisis.
Ambassador Maged Abdelaziz says all the parties agreed to send technical delegations to discuss an Egyptian-French initiative to end the fighting in Gaza.
Details of the plan aren’t clear, but the initiative calls for a limited cease-fire in the Israeli-Hamas fighting to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza.
UPDATE: 1/7 3 pm
Israel increased its anti-tunnel operation on Wednesday night and captured 120 suspected Hamas fighters, the Jerusalem Post reports.
Tunnel openings are frequently hidden inside houses and Palestinians reported that by 9 p.m., 30 homes had been destroyed. According to Channel 10, the army said that anti-tunnel operations would continue through the night.
Finally some adult supervision. But France and Egypt? It figures that the US, still under Bush, would want war to continue. It makes me want to puke. I don’t care who’s leading the talks, just so they are happening.
Watch this video. Warning, there’s some blood.
The AP reports that last year’s US-funded plan to disrupt the tunnels between Gaza and Egypt had little effect.
Yes. It goes on to speak of the huge efforts to stop the illegal smuggling of rockets from Egypt through the border tunnels. The article says that the tunnels they found in Gaza City are different tunnels than the border ones, that these are dug for the purpose of kidnapping Israeli soldiers.
They are dug by Hamas militants for military purpose.
This makes sensational news, but it doesn’t tell the whole story. I will not waiver from my position that the tunnels may have been originally designed for covert military missions, but were later put to practical use for humanitarian purposes. Our own Interstate Highway System was originally passed in Congress as part of a homeland defense act enabling our military to move from one coast/border to another with minimum delays, then used extensively for civilian needs. When you imprison people, then allow them to have shovels, well…..you’re going to have tunnels for whatever purpose.
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