I think you have it wrong John! Hamas,a week ago, said it would stop its military operations for a week to give the Israelis time to pull out.However,it also said that the military and economic blockade of this city of around a million and a half residents was intolerable and if the blockade was not lifted military operations would resume at the end of this period. . During the past week there have been Israeli flyovers above Gaza and the blockade has not been lifted. Apparently, the Israelis will not even allow a bag of cement into the city and is also maintaining its naval blockade firing even at the very smallest of fishing craft a few hundred metres of the Gaza beach. Despite all its massive military superiority Israel cannot bend the Palestinians to its will. Hugo
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