Israel - Palestine Update Thread. No hate. Just updates.

Michael van Poppel ‏@mpoppel
EGYPTIAN OFFICIAL CONFIRMS TO REUTERS CEASEFIRE AGREEMENT REACHED BETWEEN PALESTINIANS, ISRAEL twitter.com...

Originally posted by DragonFire1024
Michael van Poppel ‏@mpoppel
EGYPTIAN OFFICIAL CONFIRMS TO REUTERS CEASEFIRE AGREEMENT REACHED BETWEEN PALESTINIANS, ISRAEL twitter.com...

we'll see. Apparently

Reuters Top News ‏@Reuters
ISRAEL HAS AGREED TO TRUCE IN GAZA, BUT WILL NOT LIFT BLOCKADE - ISRAELI SOURCES

I guess the jets I heard a few minutes ago and an explosion or two must be Israel's welcome wagon for the truce.

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seeing that on sky and bbc new-official cease fire agreed.
Hope its going to hold.
No more deaths please.

Originally posted by Silcone Synapse
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seeing that on sky and bbc new-official cease fire agreed.
Hope its going to hold.
No more deaths please.

Yeah cease fire alright...just heard an explosion on RT feed

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Damn...maybe its not for some hours?
Or is it just more BS.

another one : www.ustream.tv...

Sky news ticker says:
Israel agrees to truce in Gaza but will not lift blockade.
Egyptian and Palestinian officials say cease fire has been agreed.

When it takes effect,who knows-not yet if bombs are still going off.

Barak Ravid‏@BarakRavid

Israel official: SecState Clinton will announce 20:00 in Cairo on cease fire in Gaza

Twitter Source

Let's hope this one actually happens.

Just heard more explosions. I really do hope this cease fire will happen.

Just on sky news that Israel bombed the safe area that they told the Palestinian civilians to move to in the leaflets they dropped.

Another explosion on RT

Originally posted by MyMindIsMyOwn

Barak Ravid‏@BarakRavid

Israel official: SecState Clinton will announce 20:00 in Cairo on cease fire in Gaza

Twitter Source

Let's hope this one actually happens.

How long away is 20:00 in Cairo?

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We've heard this a few times now...

I think I understand Natanyahu's strategy now. When Israel attacks Iran's nuclear facilities, they'll be having to worry about simultaneous attacks from Irans Shabab missiles, Hezbollah in the north and Hamas in the south. By getting rid of Hamas' missile capabilities and destroying their government facilities/training centers/bomb factories etc, Israel freed themselves from having to allocate military resources to attending to a southern barrage of missiles from Hamas.

Clever tactic. I don't see Israel entering Gaza for a ground offensive. They've done what they needed to do.

Iron Dome running short of missiles so a cease fire is reached.

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45 min

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Why do you say that?

Originally posted by Silcone Synapse
How long away is 20:00 in Cairo?

It is currently 7:18PM, so by my calculations (and I am hardly an expert in military time) but I think that 20:00 would be 8:00PM?? So about 45 minutes I should think.

Anyone out there feel free to correct me if I am wrong here.

Originally posted by Todzer
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45 min

Its horribly insane to me that any ceasefire does not start from the very moment of the decision-but no,lets have another 45mins of killing people first...

Don't tell me it takes that long to stop all attacks these days with all the technology in play.

Hope it holds if we get there anyway.

Originally posted by MyMindIsMyOwn

Originally posted by Silcone Synapse
How long away is 20:00 in Cairo?

It is currently 7:18PM, so by my calculations (and I am hardly an expret in military time) but I think that 20:00 would be 8:00PM?? So about 45 minutes I should think.

Anyone out there feel free to correct me if I am wrong here.

not that difficult.. always minus 12

And yes you're correct