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Gaza Militants Prepare to Fight as Truce Nears End
(Reuters) Nidal al-Mughrabi - Crawling beneath bushes and planting bombs for practice attacks, Palestinian militants trained in the Gaza Strip on Thursday to resume fighting when a truce with Israel expires at year's end. Many say they want to resume the uprising fully after Dec. 31. "Calm was a strategic mistake by the resistance and it will not be repeated," said Abu Sharif, speaking on behalf of the Al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades and the Popular Resistance Committees. He said militants hoped to soon start firing rocket salvoes from the West Bank, closer to Israel's major population centers. "One of our strategies is to move rockets to the West Bank to meet the coming year with more violent resistance." Israel has long pressed Abbas to crack down on militants rather than talking to them. "They are running out of time," a senior Israeli official said. He said that if Abbas did not impose order, "Palestinian society will pull itself further and further from the aspiration of a democratic state alongside Israel."