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Hamas ready for truce if Israel ends blockade

Tel Aviv dismisses offer as 'not serious'

AFP, Cairo/Jerusalem
Hamas on Thursday agreed to a phased truce that would only extend to the West Bank in a second stage in return for an end to Israel's blockade of Gaza. Egypt's official MENA news agency said.
But Israel on Friday dismissed as "not serious" a Hamas proposal for a six-month truce in Gaza that could later extend to the occupied West Bank.
"Unfortunately, this appears not to be serious at all." government spokesman Mark Regcv said after the Islamist movement told Egypt *t agreed to implement a ceasefire in Gaza that could be extended to the West Bank within six months.
Senior Hamas official Mahmud al-Zahar, a former Palestinian foreign minister, said that the
Islamist group had agreed to a ceasefire in Gaza first, which would be extended to the West Bank within six months. MENA reported.
Zahar spoke after he and former interior minister Said Siam held talks with Egypt's pointman on Palestinian affairs, intelligence chief Omar Suleiman.
"The movement has agreed for a period of calm in Gaza in the framework of a national consensus, which would be extended to the West Bank after six months," Hamas said in a statement carried by MENA
"The period of calm must be reciprocal and concurrent; there must be a lifting of the blockade and the opening of the border crossings, including the Rafah crossing, to take place when tire calming takes effect."
The proposal also states that if Israel were not to accept a
ceasefire, Egypt would open the Rafalr border crossing.
The Rafah crossing, the only gateway to the Gaza Strip that bypasses Israel, has been mainly closed since Hamas took control of Gaza in June last year.
On January 23, Palestinian militants demolished the border barricades between Gaza and Egypt, sending hundreds of thousands of Gazans flooding into Egypt to stock up on vital supplies.
Egyptian and Hamas forces resealed the frontier on February 4.
Suleiman has invited other Palestinian factions for meetings TUesday and Wednesday to discuss Hamas's truce proposal, MENA reported.
Egypt has been serving as go-between in the truce negotiations with Israel, which blacklists Hamas as a terror group and refuses any
direct contacts.
Israel has sealed off Gaza to all but very limited humanitarian aid since the Islamist group seized control of the territory from forces loyal to Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in June
The United Nations stopped distributing aid in the Gaza Strip on T hursday after running out of fuel as the Israeli terminal that supplies the Palestinian territory remained shut.
"We have just stopped the distribution of all food aid to 650,000 Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip because of the lack of fuel in our storage in Gaza," said Adnan Abu Hasna, a spokesman for the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) office in Gaza.
"We also stopped transporting students and officials in the Gaza Strip," he told AFP. "Not a litre of fuel came from Israel."