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Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Mashaal says truce ‘amounts to a defeat’
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleDespite the public celebrations and declarations of victory in Gaza, Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal says the “agreement reached amounts to a defeat,” Channel 2 reports.
The TV station’s Ehud Ya’ari says the victory celebrations in Gaza have not been particularly large.
Channel 2 quotes a senior Israeli official who insists: “Hamas is feeling a defeat: you must hear what they are saying among themselves.”
The official defends Netanyahu’s decision not to present the truce deal to the cabinet vote before approving it, saying that the cabinet had voted in favor of the Egyptian proposal in the past.
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