(Jerusalem Post) Khaled Abu Toameh - Hamas and Islamic Jihad on Tuesday denied that they would halt terrorist attacks "without making Israel pay a price." Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, the Syria-based head of the movement's political bureau, told the London-based daily Al-Hayat: "There is talk about calm, but a conditioned one. If the occupation meets our conditions, including ending the occupation and releasing all the prisoners, we will be prepared to consider a temporary truce." According to sources in Ramallah, most of the Palestinian factions have agreed in principle to Abbas's initiative to achieve a temporary truce with Israel.
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