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Sharm El-Sheikh Summit Seeks to Maintain Ceasefire; Mubarak Reiterates Rejection of Foreign Presence on Egyptian Territories
Mon 19 01 2009 طوال اليوم Published in Almasry Alyoum on 19 - 01 - 2009

Hamas and the Palestinian resistance factions have backtracked on their position and declared an immediate cease-fire in conjunction with the international summit on Gaza in Sharm El-Sheikh yesterday.
Hamas gave Israel a one-week deadline to withdraw its troops from the Gaza Strip, and played down the importance of the Sharm El-Sheikh summit as being ‘marginal'.
 
President Hosni Mubarak at the end of the summit called for continued international support for the Egyptian efforts to stop the war in the Gaza Strip.
 “There are signs of resolving the crisis,” he said, adding that Egypt is working hard to secure its borders and that it will never accept any foreign presence on its territories.
 
Mubarak supported the Jordanian king and the Arab League-Secretary General in calling for ending the Arab-Israeli conflict in 2009.
 
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown told reporters on his way to Sharm El-Sheikh that this conflict has proved once again the urgent need for a long-term settlement that assures security for both Israel and the Palestinians.
Sources said that the summit, which was attended by President Mubarak, Arab and Foreign leaders and the UN Secretary-General, focused on maintaining the cease-fire in Gaza, withdrawing the Israeli forces from the territory, restoring calm, opening the crossings, lifting the siege and providing the necessary resources for relief aid and reconstruction.
On the ground, the Israeli army on Wednesday morning launched an air raid on the Gaza Strip after Palestinian militants fired five rockets on southern Israel. Yet it withdrew its troops from the coastal road that links Gaza with the center of the Strip.
A Palestinian medical source said the bodies of 95 Palestinians - most of them civilians - were recovered yesterday from under the rubble of houses that were shelled by the Israeli army, bringing the death toll to 1300 with more than 5300 wounded.
 
A high-level Egyptian official said Egypt will continue its contacts with the parties concerned in order to finalize all arrangements to end the crisis.

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