Zionists Resume Child Killing in Gaza
GAZA CITY (Dispatches) – The occupying regime of Israel hauled its negotiators back from talks in Cairo and warplanes hit Gaza Tuesday, breaching a 24-hour truce.
Nine days of relative quiet in the skies over Gaza came to an abrupt halt as the Zionist regime ordered warplanes to strike targets across the battered Gaza Strip.
Three rockets struck southern Occupied Palestine before the truce was to expire at midnight local time (2100 GMT Monday). There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the rockets fired at Beersheva, which is home to around 200,000 Zionists.
A Zionist official confirmed the negotiating team had been ordered back from Cairo where Egypt has been pushing for a decisive end to the Gaza bloodshed, which has killed more than 2,000 Palestinians, mostly civilians.
Just before the attacks, the occupying regime’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu warned there would be "a very strong response" should there be any resumption of fire.
Hamas dismissed his remarks as having "no weight".
In Gaza, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri denied the resistance movement had fired rockets over the fence, accusing the occupying regime of Israel of trying to sabotage the truce talks.
"We don't have any information about firing rockets from Gaza. The Israeli raids are intended to sabotage the negotiations in Cairo," he told AFP.
The talks in Cairo center on an Egyptian proposal that meets some of the Palestinian demands, such as easing Israel's eight-year blockade on Gaza, but defer debate on other thorny issues until later.
The aim is to broker a long-term arrangement to halt more than a month of Zionist assault, although both sides have largely silenced their guns since August 11 thanks to a series of temporary truces.
"No one here has any hope," said Riyad Abul Sultan, a father of 10 with thick curly hair, smoking as he sat on a flimsy mattress at a UN school in Gaza.
"Maybe they'll finish the war for two hours, maybe Israel will start bombing again."
The Palestinians say agreement over a long-term arrangement in Gaza has been delayed by Israeli foot-dragging over key issues such as a port and an airport.
"The negotiations failed on Monday evening because the Israelis refused to include a port or an airport in the agreement," a Palestinian source close to the talks told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.
"The Egyptians then added a clause allowing for the postponement of talks on this issue in order to avoid Israel raising the issue of (disarming Gaza from) rockets and missiles," he said.
Islamic Jihad on Tuesday accused the Zionist regime of "intransigence" while Hamas's Abu Zuhri said the occupying regime was "playing for time" at the talks.
Hamas had repeatedly warned it would not extend the temporary ceasefire again, pressing for immediate gains that would allow it to claim concessions from Israel after the devastating four-week war, which began on July 8.
But a senior official within the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) said the resistance movement appeared to have changed its position following a meeting at the weekend between exiled Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal and senior Palestinian official Saeb Erakat.
Three rockets struck southern Occupied Palestine before the truce was to expire at midnight local time (2100 GMT Monday). There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the rockets fired at Beersheva, which is home to around 200,000 Zionists.
A Zionist official confirmed the negotiating team had been ordered back from Cairo where Egypt has been pushing for a decisive end to the Gaza bloodshed, which has killed more than 2,000 Palestinians, mostly civilians.
Just before the attacks, the occupying regime’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu warned there would be "a very strong response" should there be any resumption of fire.
Hamas dismissed his remarks as having "no weight".
In Gaza, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri denied the resistance movement had fired rockets over the fence, accusing the occupying regime of Israel of trying to sabotage the truce talks.
"We don't have any information about firing rockets from Gaza. The Israeli raids are intended to sabotage the negotiations in Cairo," he told AFP.
The talks in Cairo center on an Egyptian proposal that meets some of the Palestinian demands, such as easing Israel's eight-year blockade on Gaza, but defer debate on other thorny issues until later.
The aim is to broker a long-term arrangement to halt more than a month of Zionist assault, although both sides have largely silenced their guns since August 11 thanks to a series of temporary truces.
"No one here has any hope," said Riyad Abul Sultan, a father of 10 with thick curly hair, smoking as he sat on a flimsy mattress at a UN school in Gaza.
"Maybe they'll finish the war for two hours, maybe Israel will start bombing again."
The Palestinians say agreement over a long-term arrangement in Gaza has been delayed by Israeli foot-dragging over key issues such as a port and an airport.
"The negotiations failed on Monday evening because the Israelis refused to include a port or an airport in the agreement," a Palestinian source close to the talks told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.
"The Egyptians then added a clause allowing for the postponement of talks on this issue in order to avoid Israel raising the issue of (disarming Gaza from) rockets and missiles," he said.
Islamic Jihad on Tuesday accused the Zionist regime of "intransigence" while Hamas's Abu Zuhri said the occupying regime was "playing for time" at the talks.
Hamas had repeatedly warned it would not extend the temporary ceasefire again, pressing for immediate gains that would allow it to claim concessions from Israel after the devastating four-week war, which began on July 8.
But a senior official within the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) said the resistance movement appeared to have changed its position following a meeting at the weekend between exiled Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal and senior Palestinian official Saeb Erakat.