Marking 21 years since its founding, hundreds of thousands of Hamas supporters rallied in Gaza City on Sunday. (Suhaib Salem/Reuters)From International Herald Tribune:
GAZA: Hamas leaders in Gaza on Sunday left open the possibility of renewing a tenuous truce with Israel that is due to expire Friday, putting themselves at odds with a statement by the exiled political leader of the group in Damascus, Syria.
Khaled Mashal, the exiled leader, told Hamas's satellite television station Al Quds in an interview broadcast Sunday that "the truce was limited to six months and ends on Dec. 19."
But Mahmoud Zahar, a senior Hamas leader in Gaza, said the group had not made its position final. The local Hamas leadership was to meet with representatives of the other Palestinian armed groups on Sunday night and afterward formulate an official policy, Zahar said by telephone.
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