Hamas agrees to deal on Israel truce: Paper
China Daily | Updated: 2008-04-23 07:27
Egypt has reached a preliminary agreement with Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that controls the Gaza Strip, on a truce with Israel, Egypt's state newspaper al-Ahram said yesterday.
"Egypt has reached a preliminary agreement with Hamas on the methods of achieving a period of calm with the Israelis, and (intelligence chief) Omar Suleiman will relay the results of these contacts and the principles of the agreement to Israel to reach a final agreement," the paper said.
Al-Ahram attributed the information to "an informed source", but the comments came in the context of comments by President Hosni Mubarak to Egyptian reporters accompanying him on a visit to France.
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