“War is deceit,” said the Prophet Muhammad (Sahih Bukhari, IV:52:268-270). He also said that lying was permissible in battle (Sahih Muslim, book 32, no. 6303). If the Israelis had taken into proper account the abundant evidence that the Palestinians take the words of Muhammad quite seriously, they might not have placed much hope these truce talks in the first place.
From The Scotsman, with thanks to Shiva:
Israel cancelled a meeting with Palestinian negotiators today following a mortar attack on a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip.
A Palestinian official said Israel called off the meeting in response to the flare-up in violence. It was not immediately clear when the meeting would be rescheduled.
The talks were meant to follow up on Tuesday”s summit, where the Israeli and Palestinian leaders shook hands called for an end to four years of fighting.
Today”s meeting was expected to discuss the work of new joint committees that are to coordinate the planned release of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel and an Israeli military pullout from West Bank population centres.
Palestinian militants fired a barrage of mortar shells at a Jewish settlement in the southern Gaza Strip early today in the first serious breach of the ceasefire declared at the Red Sea summit.