Hamas: Ending Ceasefire with Israel
 
by Hana Levi Julian
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/128847

(IsraelNN.com) The Hamas terrorist organization has announced 
it will not continue the tahadiyeh, or temporary truce, that it began 
with Israel on June 19. The reduction in hostilities is set to expire 
this Friday.

Hamas, which celebrated its 21st anniversary with an outdoor rally 
in Gaza on Sunday, made the announcement from its offices in 
Damascus, according to the Reuters news agency.

The terrorist group's Syrian-based politburo chief, Khaled Mashaal, 
was quoted by a Hamas television station as saying there would 
be "no renewal of the 'calm' after it expires."

Defense Minister Ehud Barak sent Major General Amos Gilad, 
head of political military policy at the Defense Ministry, to meet 
in Cairo Sunday morning with top Egyptian intelligence officials 
in anticipation of the announcement.
 
Tens of Thousands Mock Gilad Shalit to Celebrate Hamas

More than 150,000 Palestinian Authority Arab residents of Gaza 
packed into an outdoor arena in Gaza City to celebrate the 
founding of the terrorist entity that currently controls the region, 
while thousands more thronged in the streets.

Amid bright green flags and men wearing baseball caps, terrorists 
paraded before the crowd a lone, mock-hostage IDF soldier who 
pleaded with his captors in Hebrew to let him go home, saying, 
"I miss my Ima (Mom) and Abba (Dad)."

The response, intoned in a ritualistic fashion, was uttered over 
the "captive's" plaint: "For those who made my children imbibe 
a bitter brew, you will drink from the same cup, in the end."

Despite repeated attempts to negotiate a settlement with the 
terrorist organization, mediated by Egyptian officials, Hamas has 
refused to come to any agreement on a prisoner swap deal for 
Shalit's release. The group's most recent demand included the 
insistence that Israel free more than 1,000 terrorists, many of 
them multiple murderers with Jewish blood on their hands, 
in exchange for Shalit's return. 

However, the soldier's current condition and whereabouts are not 
even known at this point, and it is not clear whether Hamas is 
negotiating in good faith. 

Hizbullah similarly negotiated for the return of two IDF soldiers 
who were abducted less than a month after Shalit was kidnapped. 
It was not known that they had been murdered within hours of 
their capture until their coffins crossed the border in exchange for 
Lebanese child killer Samir Kuntar and four other terrorists.