Now We Will See How Committed They Are!
This is the First Test of the Degree of Commitment,
Hamas and Israel will have to maintain the Truce in Place.
Maintenance of the false peace depends solely on a Question,
Is it possible Hamas can control a fold of Ishmael’s very wild Asses?
If the truce holds
together it may require the act of God in Revelation 17
Revelation 17:17 – For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
The three Jerusalem Post Excerpts give details of the latest events the world is watching to see if the truce holds.
Begin Jerusalem Post Article 1
Hamas: We are still committed to the cease-fire agreement
June 24, 2008
Associated Press , THE JERUSALEM POST
In response to the firing of Kassam rockets from the Gaza Strip into the western Negev Tuesday afternoon, Hamas has said that the group is
still committed to the cease-fire.
Three Kassams were fired into the Sderot area, the second violation of a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas which took effect last Thursday.
Two women were treated for shock from the attack, and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s office has called the attack a violation of the truce.
The Islamic Jihad militant group claimed responsibility, saying that it was avenging an IDF raid that killed two Palestinians in the West Bank early Tuesday.
Begin Jerusalem Post Article 2
End of truce? 3 Kassams hit w. Negev
June 24, 2008
Jpost.
com staff and AP , THE JERUSALEM POST
Three Kassam rockets hit the western Negev on Tuesday afternoon, in a second violation of a cease-fire that Hamas has been abiding by since it went into effect last Thursday.
Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack, saying that the attack was to avenge an IDF raid that killed one of its members in the West Bank early Tuesday.
“We cannot keep our hands tied when this is happening to our brothers in the West Bank,” the group said in a statement.
Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said the rocket attack “came as result of Israeli provocation this morning.” He added, however, that Hamas was “committed to the calm”
“We will talk and we will make sure that all of the factions are committed to the calm, too,” he said.
A statement from Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s Office has condemned the attack as a “gross violation” of the truce, but did not say whether it would retaliate.
One of the rockets damaged a house in Sderot, where two women were treated for shock. A second rocket landed in the Sderot area, causing no casualties or damage, and a third landed in an open area in the western Negev.
The rockets were fired just as Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in an effort to piggyback on the momentum of the cease-fire and push the release of kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Schalit.
Earlier Monday overnight, Palestinian gunmen in the Gaza Strip fired a mortar shell into Israel – the first breach of the cease-fire since it went into effect five days ago.
There were no reports of casualties or damage.
Meanwhile, two Islamic Jihad gunmen, one of them a senior operative by the name of Tarek abu Ghally, 25, were killed in a joint IDF-Shin Bet operation Monday night in Nablus.
The army said the two were killed in exchanges of fire that ensued during an attempt to arrest them.
According to the military, Ghally was planning to carry out a terror attack in Israel “in the very near future.”
The soldiers found large amounts of weap ons and ammuniti
on on his person.
AP contributed to this report
Begin Jerusalem Post Article 3
Islamic Jihad plans to ruin truce
June 23, 2008
Khaled Abu Toameh , THE JERUSALEM POST
Islamic Jihad in the West Bank is planning to carry out an attack on Israel to ruin the cease-fire agreement in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian Authority security officials said on Monday
The officials told The Jerusalem Post that two senior members of the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, Fadi Kitani and Ala Abu al-Rub, have refused to surrender to the PA security forces in the West Bank despite repeated attempts to persuade them to stop their activities.
Kitani, who lives in Tulkarm, is a top member of the Al-Quds Battalion, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, which is responsible for a series of attacks on Israel over the past few years.
The PA’s Preventative Security Service tried several times to arrest him, but to no avail.
Over the weekend, Kitani’s wife was detained for several hours by Palestinian security agents who questioned her about her husband’s activities.
The detention of the wife is seen as an attempt to put pressure on Kitani
to hand himself over to the PSS.
According to the PA security officials, Kitani is suspected of heading an Islamic Jihad cell that is planning to carry out attacks on Israel to “sabotage” the cease-fire agreement.
They pointed out that Islamic Jihad leaders had voiced reservations about the Egyptian-brokered agreement, although they also promised to abide by it in the Gaza Strip.
The o ther Islamic Jihad operative being pursued by
the PA security forces is Abu al-Rub of Kabatiya, near Jenin, who is the commander of the Al-Quds Battalions in the northern West Bank.
Two weeks ago, the PA security forces almost succeeded in capturing him after surrounding the house where he was hiding in Kabatiya. But Abu al-Rub managed to escape after firing shots into the air.
At least five Islamic Jihad members have been arrested by the PA security forces in the past two months on suspicion of planning to launch attacks on Israel, the officials said.
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