Reply #1: And now comes the response from the other side..... [View All]

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GAZA CITY (AP) -- The Islamic militant group Hamas urged Palestinians to ratchet up attacks against Israel on Sunday, after nine Palestinians were killed in a surge of fighting over the weekend.

The upswing in violence threatened to derail tentative steps toward peace taken recently by Israeli and Palestinian leaders and unravel a 5-month-old cease-fire in Gaza.

Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said Sunday that Palestinians must brace for a new round of confrontation.

"The blood of our people is not cheap," Barhoum said in a statement faxed to The Associated Press, calling on Hamas fighters and other Palestinian militant groups to "be united in the trench of resistance and to use all possible means of resistance and to respond to the massacres."



http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/04/22/israel.palestinians.ap/index.html