HAMAS OFFERS TEMPORARY TRUCE IF ISRAEL SURRENDERS

SUCH A DEAL. HOW ABOUT WE DESTROY YOU INSTEAD?

Hamas to Suspend Attacks Upon Conditions
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - The top Hamas leader said his militant group is prepared to suspend attacks if Israel stops targeting militants and agrees to release thousands of Palestinian prisoners, according to an interview published Tuesday.

The apparent softening of Hamas' position raised hopes that Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas would soon reach a formal cease-fire with militant groups that would pave the way for a new round of peace talks with Israel.

In an interview published in the pan-Arab newspaper Al Hayat, Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal said recent truce talks with Abbas had produced "positive results."

Mashaal said Hamas, which has called for Israel to be replaced by an Islamic state, would agree to stop attacks if Israel ends "aggression, invasion, assassination, killings" and agrees to release all Palestinian prisoners.

"If the enemy abides by these conditions, we, in Hamas, and other resistance forces in general, are ready to deal positively with the issue of pacification or temporary truce," Mashaal told the London-based newspaper, which did not say when or where the interview was conducted.

NOT BOTHERING TO WAIT FOR AN END TO TERRORISM OR ROCKET ATTACKS, ISRAEL ANNOUNCED THAT IT WAS HALTING TARGETED KILLING OF PALESTINIAN TERRORISTS. THE PALESTINIANS RESPONDED BY FIRING ROCKETS INTO ISRAEL FROM GAZA.