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Emerging Gaza ceasefire allows Hamas to restock rockets - and fire them DEBKAfile Exclusive Report January 15, 2009, 10:39 AM (GMT+02:00) Hamas missile launched against Israel DEBKAfile's military sources sum up the Egyptian-Hamas ceasefire accord presented to Israel as no better than a repeat formula of last year's failed informal truce, which led to the outbreak of the current Gaza fighting. One senior officer told us: For this we didn't have to go to war." Now as then, Egypt is fashioning separate understandings with Hamas and Israel. While tying Israel's military hands, these deals permit Hamas to claim it has come out of the fighting ahead, after Israel refrained from either toppling its Gaza government or extinguishing its missile capabilities.  More...

Israel's northern forces on high alert after rocket attack on Kiryat Shemona DEBKAfile Special Report January 14, 2009, 6:31 PM (GMT+02:00) Hizballah's Al Manar TV reports that Israel fired back after three rockets were launched against Kiryat Shemone. Lebanese sources said Israeli helicopters hovered over southern Lebanon and its artillery shelled the rocket sites. Three more rockets primed for launching were later discovered by the Lebanese army and UNIFIL troops at Habariyeh. DEBKAfile's military sources report: The second rocket attack from Lebanon in less than a week indicates Hizballah is supplying its terrorist allies with rockets for a systematic assault on northern Israel in support of Hamas in the Gaza Strip.  More...