Hamas blinks, Israel counters ceasefire offer
Hamas blinks, Israel counters ceasefire offer
Hamas proposes that Israel must agree to a year-long truce.

New Delhi: Israel has raised objections to Hamas' year-long ceasefire proposal saying that the group must not rearm itself.

After three weeks, over 1000 deaths and 80,000 refugees, Hamas has finally blinked. On Friday, it responded to an Egyptian ceasefire proposal and called for conditional truce.

Hamas proposed that Israel must agree to a year-long truce, Gaza's borders must be reopened immediately and that the borders would be guarded by Hamas.

Israel's reaction has been that it cannot accept a timeline for truce, Hamas must promise not to rearm and the Palestinian authority must control Gaza's borders not Hamas.

Jerusalem was working overtime to ensure its word prevails.

Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni flew to Washington to get the Gaza plan endorsed.

Israel has already declared that Operation Cast Lead is in its final phase.

Earlier, Palestine's Ambassador in New Delhi told CNN-IBN that peace was round the corner.

"Egypt plan will succeed. I hope within a week. It will succeed," hoped Palestine's Ambassador to India Osama Musa.

To many, Israel's scaled down posture seemed inevitable. The Gaza operation had failed to eliminate Hamas.

The grand plan to strengthen the pro-western Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas had therefore collapsed and internationally Israel could no longer afford to ignore world criticism of the appalling scale of casualties on Gaza's civil population.

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