Cairo – What’s In The Gaza Peace Deal?

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     Palestinians gather in the streets celebrating a ceasefire in Gaza City, 26 August 2014.  EPACairo – Israel and the Palestinians agreed on Tuesday to an Egyptian-brokered plan to end the fighting in Gaza after 50 days of combat in which more than 2,100 Palestinians, most of them civilians, 64 Israeli soldiers and five civilians in Israel were killed.

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    Following are the broad parameters of the agreement, which Israeli and Palestinian negotiators have been working on through indirect talks in Cairo over recent weeks.

    As part of the deal, both sides have agreed to address more complex issues dividing them – including the release of Palestinian prisoners and Gaza’s demands for a sea port – via further indirect talks starting within a month.

    IMMEDIATE STEPS

    * Hamas and other militant groups in Gaza agree to halt all rocket and mortar fire into Israel.

    * Israel will stop all military action including air strikes and ground operations.

    * Israel agrees to open more of its border crossings with Gaza to allow the easier flow of goods, including humanitarian aid and reconstruction equipment, into the coastal enclave.

    * In a separate, bilateral agreement, Egypt will agree to open its 14 km (8 mile) border with Gaza at Rafah.

    * The Palestinian Authority, headed by President Mahmoud Abbas, is expected to take over responsibility for administering Gaza’s borders from Hamas. Israel and Egypt hope it will ensure weapons, ammunition and any “dual-use” goods are prevented from flowing into Gaza.

    * The Palestinian Authority will lead in coordinating the reconstruction effort in Gaza with international donors, including the European Union.

    * Israel is expected to narrow the security buffer along the inside of the Gaza border, reducing it from 300 meters to 100 meters if the truce holds. The move will allow Palestinians more access to farm land close to the border.

    * Israel will extend the fishing limit off Gaza’s coast to six miles from three miles, with the possibility of widening it gradually if the truce holds. Ultimately, the Palestinians want to return to a full 12-mile international allowance.

    LONGER TERM ISSUES TO BE DISCUSSED

    * Hamas wants Israel to release hundreds of Palestinian prisoners rounded up in the West Bank following the abduction and killing of three Jewish seminary students in June, an attack that led to the war. Hamas initially denied involvement in the killings, but a senior Hamas official in exile in Turkey last week admitted the group did carry out the attack.

    * President Abbas, who heads the Fatah party, wants freedom for long-serving Palestinian prisoners whose release was dropped after the collapse of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

    * Israel wants Hamas and other militant groups in Gaza to hand over all body parts and personal effects of Israeli soldiers killed during the war.

    * Hamas wants a sea port built in Gaza, allowing goods and people to be ferried in and out of the enclave. Israel has long rejected the plans, but it is possible that progress towards it could be made if there are absolute security guarantees.

    * Hamas wants the un-freezing of funds to allow it to pay 40,000 police, government workers and other administrative staff who have largely been without salaries since late last year.

    * The Palestinians also want the airport in Gaza – Yasser Arafat International, which opened in 1998 but was shut down in 2000 after it was bombed by Israel – to be rebuilt.


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    radrad
    radrad
    9 years ago

    moronic.

    Boochie
    Boochie
    9 years ago

    All I read is Hamas wants Hamas wants

    BarryLS1
    BarryLS1
    9 years ago

    Foolish deal. Who says Abbas can be trusted? Then you have to rely on Hamas to keep their word, which they haven’t done yet. Netanyahu is plummeting in the polls, because people are getting fed up with this nonsense of not finishing the job.

    A supposed cease fire took place today with the same result. We ceased and they fired, killing a few and wounding many people. When did we get so dumb?

    PaulinSaudi
    PaulinSaudi
    9 years ago

    About 70:2,100? So we are looking at a 1:30 exchange ratio? That is better than the traditional 1:20 the IDF has delivered in the past.

    chugibugi
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    chugibugi
    9 years ago

    Bottom line,another bitter and devastating and embarrassing defeat for Israel by the hands of a few thousand murderous terrorist cockroaches,and we can thank all this to this criminally insane traitorous spineless pathetic COWARD,Pipi,NothingYahoo.
    Who tied the hands of the IDF,and did not let them destroy to murderous animals once and for all.
    In any other normal country,this traitor would be hanging from he gallows for the crime of treason.
    CH.S

    9 years ago

    Just take a look at how many of Israel’s concerns get addressed vs. how many issues
    Of hamas!!! What an embarrassing disappointment Bibi turned out to be! He negotiated with terrorists, as he promised he’d never do, and is rewarding them for their terror! Where is the deterrence?! This is all because of obama’s pressure, nothing more. Bibi sold out his own country just for the sake of not angering our muslim born president. For shame ! Bibi deserves to be ousted for this!
    “IMMEDIATE STEPS
    * Hamas and other militant groups in Gaza agree to halt all rocket and mortar fire into Israel.
    * Israel will stop all military action including air strikes and ground operations.
    * Israel agrees to open more of its border crossings with Gaza to allow the easier flow of goods, including humanitarian aid and reconstruction equipment, into the coastal enclave.
    * In a separate, bilateral agreement, Egypt will agree to open its 14 km (8 mile) border with Gaza at Rafah.
    * The Palestinian Authority, headed by President Mahmoud Abbas, is expected to take over responsibility for administering Gaza’s borders from Hamas. Israel and Egypt hope it will ensure weapons, ammunition and any “dual-use” goods are prevented from flowing into Gaza.
    * The Palestinian Authority will lead in coordinating the reconstruction effort in Gaza with international donors, including the European Union.
    * Israel is expected to narrow the security buffer along the inside of the Gaza border, reducing it from 300 meters to 100 meters if the truce holds. The move will allow Palestinians more access to farm land close to the border.
    * Israel will extend the fishing limit off Gaza’s coast to six miles from three miles, with the possibility of widening it gradually if the truce holds. Ultimately, the Palestinians want to return to a full 12-mile international allowance.”

    Conscience
    Conscience
    9 years ago

    Same old cycle
    Five thousand trucks
    For feeding the enemies of tomorrow ?
    What you mean whats in the truce ?
    Giving time to replenish
    The weaponry ” m75 anyone ?
    And even more sophisticated ones
    This is what the truce is all about
    How stupid must we play !

    kehati
    kehati
    9 years ago

    Bottom line – Because Hamas did not lose, it won. Because Israel did not win, it lost

    9 years ago

    To all of you war hawks and Monday morning quarterbacks: The bottom line is that as of right now, it is quiet on the western front. Isn’t it better for it to be quiet, so that children can go back to school, mothers can walk their babies in strollers in peace, soldiers can go home to their families, the economy of EY can return to normalcy, people won’t have to keep running to air raid shelters, and residents can return to their homes in the south of EY? Or, do the war hawks among you want a full scale ground invasion, involving thousands of tanks, 150,000 troops, etc. If you think that the 2,500 dead Israeli soldiers in the Yom Kippur War was excessive, a full scale ground invasion in Gaza would result in much higher casualties. The bottom line is that you make peace with your enemies and not with your friends (to quote Shimon Peres).