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<h1 class="title" id="page-title">Palestinian factions reportedly
set 10 conditions for 10-year truce with Israel </h1>
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<span property="dc:date dc:created"
content="2014-07-16T13:29:50+00:00" datatype="xsd:dateTime"
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typeof="sioc:UserAccount" property="foaf:name" datatype="">Ali
Abunimah</span> on Wed, 07/16/2014 - 13:29<br>
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<p>Reports in Israeli and Palestinian media say that the two
Palestinian resistance groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad have set
forth ten conditions for a ceasefire and ten-year truce with
Israel.</p>
<p>Israel’s <a
href="http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART2/597/047.html?hp=1&cat=666&loc=2"><em>Maariv</em>
said</a> that an unnamed “senior Palestinian official” passed
it a copy of the demands, which have been transmitted by the
factions to Egypt.</p>
<p>They include an end to all armed hostilities, the end of the
siege of Gaza, and the construction of internationally
supervised air and seaports.</p>
<p>While Hamas has not as yet officially stated these demands,
they are in line with the group’s long-standing policy of
offering Israel a multi-year truce.</p>
<p>The reported conditions come after <a
href="http://www.ochaopt.org/documents/ocha_opt_sitrep_16_07_2014.pdf">nine
days of Israeli bombardment</a> of the Gaza Strip that has
killed more than 200 people, injured <nobr><a
href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/palestinian-factions-reportedly-set-10-conditions-10-year-truce-israel#"
class="FAtxtL" id="FALINK_3_0_2">close</a></nobr> to 1,400,
and destroyed the homes of 8,200 others. Almost 80 percent of
the dead, who include more than thirty children, are civilians,
<a
href="http://www.ochaopt.org/documents/ocha_opt_sitrep_16_07_2014.pdf">according
to the UN</a>.</p>
<p>Yesterday, Hamas refused to respond to a unilateral “ceasefire”
declared by Israel that would have left the situation of siege
on the Gaza Strip <a
href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/hamas-did-not-reject-ceasefire-israel-did">unchanged</a>.</p>
<h2>Airport, seaport and an end to violence</h2>
<p>The ten conditions were translated by The Electronic Intifada
from an Arabic version <a
href="http://www.maannews.net/arb/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=713512">published
by Ma’an News Agency</a>:</p>
<ol>
<li>
<p>Mutual cessation of the war and withdrawal of tanks to
previous <nobr><a
href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/palestinian-factions-reportedly-set-10-conditions-10-year-truce-israel#"
class="FAtxtL" id="FALINK_6_0_5">locations</a></nobr>
and the return of farmers to work their land in the
agricultural border areas.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Release of all the Palestinians detained since 23 June 2014
and improvement of the conditions of Palestinian prisoners,
especially the prisoners from Jerusalem, Gaza and
Palestinians of the interior [present-day Israel].</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Total lifting of the siege of Gaza and opening the border
crossings to goods and people and allowing in all food and
industrial <nobr><a
href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/palestinian-factions-reportedly-set-10-conditions-10-year-truce-israel#"
class="FAtxtL" id="FALINK_1_0_0">supplies</a></nobr> and
construction of a power plant sufficient to supply all of
Gaza.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Construction of an international seaport and an
international airport supervised by the UN and non-biased
countries.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Expansion of the maritime fishing zone to 10 kms and
supplying fishermen with larger fishing and cargo vessels.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Converting the Rafah crossing into an international
crossing under supervision of the UN and Arab and friendly
countries.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Signing a 10-year truce agreement and deployment of
international monitors to the borders.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>A commitment by the occupation government not to violate
Palestinian airspace and easing of conditions for worshipers
in Al-Aqsa Mosque.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>The occupation will not interfere in the affairs of the
Palestinian government and will not hinder national
reconciliation.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Restoration of the border industrial areas and their
protection and development.</p>
</li>
</ol>
<h2>“Should have been met years ago”</h2>
<p>Dr. Ramy Abdu, chair of the independent group <a
href="http://electronicintifada.net/tags/euro-mid">Euro-Mid
Observer for Human Rights</a> (<a
href="http://www.euromid.org/en">euromid.org</a>, told The
Electronic Intifada from Gaza City this morning:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>I believe that these requirements should have been met years
ago. The core of these requirements are not political but
purely humanitarian and legally binding. The international
community has called many times for their implementation.
Palestinians have the right to move in and out freely like
others in the world. They have the right to import and export,
to control their borders and airspace. Israel <nobr><a
href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/palestinian-factions-reportedly-set-10-conditions-10-year-truce-israel#"
class="FAtxtL" id="FALINK_5_0_4">argues</a></nobr> that it
left Gaza, so it should stop controlling the lives of
Palestinians.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Abdu noted that his organization recently <a
href="http://euromid.org/en/article/517/Working-Paper:-Gaza-Seaport--A-Windowpane-to-the-World">published
a detailed proposal</a> to establish a maritime link from Gaza
to the rest of the world with an international role that could
“alleviate <nobr><a
href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/palestinian-factions-reportedly-set-10-conditions-10-year-truce-israel#"
class="FAtxtL" id="FALINK_2_0_1">security concerns</a></nobr>.”</p>
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