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| 2003/08/02 |
Islamic Jihad warns Israel
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12:59:50 �.�
Gaza City, Aug 2 - Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad threatened Saturday to break off the three-month truce it announced in late June and resume attacks against Israel.
"We warn the Zionist enemy that its continuing aggressions are going to force us to start the countdown to ending the truce," the movement said in a statement.
It hit out at Israel over its suppression of a protest by Palestinian prisoners in the Shikma prison outside the southern city of Ashkelon Thursday in which Palestinian sources say 10 inmates were wounded, as well as five warders.
"We express our solidarity with our detained brothers and hail their resistance," the statement said.
Islamic Jihad, like its larger Islamist rival Hamas, conditioned its three-month truce on the release of all 6,000 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, but the right-wing government of Ariel Sharon has so far refused to free more than a few hundred.
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