United Nations – Palestinian UN Envoy Hopes For Cease-Fire Soon

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    Israeli Markava tanks heading toward the Israeli Gaza border, 18 July 2014. EPAUnited Nations – The Palestinian United Nations envoy says he hopes “a very intensive negotiation” in Cairo might produce a cease-fire “in the hours to come” between Israel and Hamas.

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    Ambassador Riyad Mansour said in an interview with The Associated Press soon after Israel was reported to have launched a ground invasion into Gaza late Thursday that it “would increase and compound the number of casualties to a very exponential level.”

    He said Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met with leaders from Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Egypt and other many others and he understood that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was on his way to Egypt.

    “We hope that an agreement and cease-fire to take place as quickly as possible before shedding the blood of one additional single Palestinian soul,” Mansour said.


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    Conscience
    Conscience
    9 years ago

    No need for hope ; the morally depraved isreali regime will see to make sure that chamas will thrive again so that their freedom is not impede, cause after all and democracy is for them as well !