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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Search Search: Hamas speaks of hitch in Gaza truce after new bloodshed AFP - Saturday, February 14 DOHA (AFP) - - Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal told AFP on Friday that there had been a hitch in plans to announce a truce in and around Gaza after rocket fire by Palestinian militants drew renewed Israeli air strikes on the war-battered territory. ADVERTISEMENT The Damascus-based leader-in-exile of the Islamist movement that controls Gaza did not elaborate on the nature of the problem but said he no longer expected Egyptian mediators to announce a deal on Sunday as originally planned. "The Egyptians had told us that the announcement of this truce would be made on Sunday but there has been a complication and we don't know if that date will be kept to," Meshaal told AFP in the Qatari capital where he had flown in from a visit to Libya. Meshaal's number two Mussa Abu Marzuq had told the Egyptian state news agency MENA late on Thursday that the mediators would announce an agreement on an 18-month truce within 48 hours after Hamas gave it its endorsement. But there has still be no reaction from Israel where an inconclusive general election held on Tuesday has created what threatens to be a prolonged period of political uncertainty. That uncertainty was compounded earlier on Friday by a fresh bout of tit-for-tat violence in and around Gaza. Gaza militants fired Qassam rockets and a mortar round into southern Israel, causing no casualties, the army said. A spokesman said the rockets had exploded near the southern city of Sderot -- a frequent target of attacks from the Hamas-ruled enclave. Israel responded with an air strike on the southern Gaza Strip that killed a militant and with other air raids on suspected smuggling tunnels under the border with Egypt. "There was an air strike in Khan Yunis against terror operatives who were planning an attack inside Israel," an Israeli military spokesman said. Palestinian medics said one person was killed and three more wounded in the raid in southern Gaza, with witnesses saying two fighters from the Popular Resistance Committees, a small militant group allied with Hamas, were targeted. "Six smuggling tunnels were attacked," an army spokesman added, saying they had been used by Palestinian militants for bringing weapons into Gaza. The army says more than 40 rockets have been fired into southern Israel by militants since January 18, when Israel and Hamas declared ceasefires to end a three-week war that killed more than 1,300 Palestinians and 13 Israelis. In the same period, Israel has carried out a number of air strikes on the densely populated, aid-dependent enclave. Israel imposed a crippling blockade on Gaza after Hamas seized control of the territory a year and a half ago, ousting loyalists of Western-backed Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas. Ending the blockade has been a key Hamas demand and the reason it has given for firing rockets and mortar rounds into Israel after an earlier six-month truce expired in December. Omar Suleiman, Cairo's pointman for truce talks with Israel, has met separately with Israeli and Palestinian officials to negotiate a lasting truce. On Friday, Egyptian newspapers quoted him as saying Cairo would discuss the truce proposal with Israel next week, and that rocket fire on Israel was one of the issues blocking a deal. Egypt's efforts have hit several hurdles -- one of which is the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit who was snatched by Gaza militants in June 2006 and is still being held. The Hamas number two said late on Thursday that the issue of Shalit has been removed from the truce deal and that he would be released in exchange for Palestinian prisoners. But Meshaal said the same day that there was no agreement on releasing Shalit. "Until now there is no agreement concerning Shalit. Israel is trying to mix up the files and link his fate to the opening of the crossings (into Gaza)," the Hamas leader told Libyan television. Suleiman said efforts were under way to draw up a list of Palestinian prisoners to be released in exchange for Shalit. Israel, which controls almost all Gaza's border crossings as well as its airspace and territorial waters, is insisting that the blockade will only be ended if Hamas frees Shalit. Email Story IM Story Printable View Blog This Recommend this article Average (0 votes) Sign in to recommend this article » Most Recommended Stories » Related Articles: World Twenty dead in suspected US missile strike: Pakistani officialAFP - 28 minutes ago Iraqis find mass grave north of BaghdadAP - 35 minutes ago Ice buildup reported on US plane before crashAFP - 1 hour 47 minutes ago Peanut product recallsAP - 1 hour 51 minutes ago Phila. police officer shot, killedAP - 2 hours 23 minutes ago Enlarge Photo Smoke billows in Rafah following an Israel air strike targeting smuggling tunnels that link the southern Gaza Strip with Egypt. 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