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GAZA, April 11 (KUNA) -- The Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement warned
Israel on Monday that it would retaliate for any offensive that might be waged
on Gaza Strip.
The group has not pleaded for a cease-fire "from any party and will not
request that from any body," the group spokesman in Gaza Daoud Shehab said in
a statement. "If the war is dictated on us, we will fight and we have nothing
to fear or cry for," he added.
"The truce in our eyes means nothing, we do not trust the occupation or
their pledges. What we are concerned about is the field condition. If there is
calm, it will be appreciated but if an aggression is waged against our people,
nothing will deter us from retaliating," he warned.
The Jihad warning coincided with reports that an informal truce has been
mediated to muzzle the guns of the warring sides in the occupied territories,
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