Considering how many more Arab women and children Hamas still has to hide behind — thereby demonizing Israel while saving its own hide — why should it accept a truce?
“Hamas leader rejects Israel conditions for Gaza truce,” from AFP, January 16:
DOHA: Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal said on Friday that the Islamist movement would not accept Israel’s terms for a Gaza truce.
“I assure you: despite all the destruction in Gaza, we will not accept Israel’s conditions for a ceasefire,” he said in the Qatari capital Doha where he was attending a regional summit on the Gaza crisis.